The English Girl and the Tsunami
In his latest book, Megadisasters: Predicting the Next Catastrophe , Florin Diacu looks at a variety of natural disasters, describing how scientists and mathematicians have struggled to understand and predict them over the centuries. In the excerpt below, Diacu tells the story of Tilly Smith , a young English girl whose vigilance saved around 100 lives in the catastrophic tsunami in 2004. On the morning of 26 December 2004, Tilly Smith was with her parents and younger sister on the Mai K
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