clock in the morning on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean, only a few people are ignorant to the warnings of tsunami waves would come, when the fishing boats swaying bermuatkan wild lobsters, and then clashing in shock.It is a sign of the arrival of a tsunami following the Chile earthquake which ripped through the island of Robinson Crusoe, as well as social ties among fishing communities there.
As a result of damage to the tsunami early warning system, the only village on the island must rely on the mercy of the waves that hit the middle come. However, God lowered mukzizatnya, through the intervention of a little girl who was 12 years finally saved the island's 650 residents.
Martina Maturana, daughter of a local police officer, was at home when he felt a terrible vibration that, according to Chilean newspaper, La Tercera, later rewritten by the British daily, The Independent, March 3 edition.
Her father is the Chilean mainland menelefon when Martina jumped out the window to run as far as 400 meters into the town square to sound the alarm bell and wake the whole island from sleep.
Martina did not know the password for the danger it rang a bell. Supposed to fire twice and three times for the landslide. What is clear, swift-action little girl has helped residents to flee to higher ground.
Warning that gives them the opportunity to follow the evacuation instructions posted in such emergency situations and escape from the giant waves triggered by the earthquake Chile.
A few minutes later a wave of indignation against the island and surging into the countryside as far as 300 meters to destroy the settlement, school, and killed eight people.
Eight other people seriously injured and evacuated from the island, but far more are selamt and should be grateful for the intervention of the little girl.
"We get out and three minutes later the water rose to 20 feet and a big wave hit my house," said a resident told a TV channel of Chile, while standing on wooden slabs and rubble that littered the house.
"I heard the wood cracking my house, then this section falls and fierce sea and then wash away the whole house."
The story received from the island is a unique piece that broke the story four days after the earthquake of 8.8 Richter scale killed 800 people in particular, the land area in the south of Chile the country.
Robinson Crusoe Island, the largest of three islands in the Juan Fernandez Islands, named in honor of Marine Scotland, Alexander Selkirk who inspired the classic tale by Daniel Defoe's literary.
A little story comes from the northernmost island in the archipelago of three islands - Selkirk Island - where 40 people from Robinson Crusoe Island usually stayed for eight months of the year for fishing and was there when the tsunami struck.
"The little village located on the east side of the island and seemed genuinely tsunami waves swallowed up," said Dr. Peter Hodnum, conservation biologists from the United States who has ten years of work and around the island. "I'm not sure they had been warned before."
Impressions-TV footage showing the destruction of Robinson Crusoe Island coast with houses destroyed and debris floating on the beach.
"This is an empty barren areas. Everything destroyed. A school, kindergarten, local government offices, churches, cultural centers, several houses, and most of the shops, all destroyed," explained Hodnum.
Head of the island, Leopold Gonzales, said the naval ship had arrived with medicines and rescue equipment, but still many people who have not been found.
Many residents angry because there was no tsunami early warning. "We can not (continue to) depends on a little girl," sneered a man in the official page of the newspaper La Tercera. (*)
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