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Tilly Smith (born 1994) is a British woman who, as a child, was credited with saving the lives of approximately 100 beachgoers at Mai Khao Beach in Thailand by warning them minutes before the arrival of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
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Peekaboo is a prime example of an object permanence test in childhood cognition. [4] Peekaboo is thought by developmental psychologists to demonstrate an infant's inability to understand object permanence. [5] Object permanence is an important stage of cognitive development for infants. In early sensorimotor stages, the infant is completely ...
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The school was destroyed in the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami. 74 of its 108 students, who had been sheltering in the school on the instructions of their teachers rather than evacuating to higher ground, were killed as the tsunami ran up the nearby Kitakami River. Only four of the students present when the tsunami struck the school survived.
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was a teletsunami.. A teletsunami (also called an ocean-wide tsunami, distant tsunami, distant-source tsunami, far-field tsunami, or trans-ocean tsunami) is a tsunami that originates from a distant source, defined as more than 1,000 km (620 mi) away or three hours' travel from the area of interest, [1] [2] sometimes travelling across an ocean.
The lighter green areas along the shore indicate places where forests are younger than older trees (darker areas) that were not affected by the tsunami. The 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake occurred on July 9, 1958, at 22:15:58 PST with a moment magnitude of 7.8 to 8.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI ( Extreme ). [ 4 ]
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