'There's definitely going to be a tsunami!': 10-year-old girl starts screaming at tourists to run away from the beach. Her geography lesson saved 100 lives

'There's definitely going to be a tsunami!': 10-year-old girl starts screaming at tourists to run away from the beach. Her geography lesson saved 100 lives

On the morning of December 26, 2004, 10-year-old Tilly Smith was walking along Mai Khao Beach in Phuket, Thailand, with her family when she noticed something odd about the ocean. The water was not going in and out like it usually does. Instead, it kept coming in and in and in. The surface had white foam on it, like beer, and it was bubbling. The British girl knew right away what these signs meant because of a geography lesson she’d had just two …