A ten-year-old girl saved about one hundred other tourists in 2004 by warning them that a tsunami (海啸), a huge ocean wave, was on its way across the sea. She knew what was happening because she learnt about underwater earthquakes at school only a few weeks earlier, a newspaper reported.
“I was on the beach and the water started to go funny,” Tilly Smith told the reporter from the newspaper. “There were bubbles (气泡) and the water went back suddenly. I knew there was going to be a tsunami. I told my Mum,” she said.
Tilly’s mother and the hotel workers acted quickly. They cleared people from the beach just minutes before a huge wave reached the land. Luckily, no one died.
Tilly’s teacher was very proud of her. “She’s a very clever girl…It is lucky that our class were learning about this kind of tsunami just two weeks before Christmas,” he told the newspaper.
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