RSOE EDIS - Situation Update No. 7 : Chile - Tsunami

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Situation Update No. 7 Posted:2010-02-27, 07:56:37 [UTC] Ref.no.: TS-20100227-25096-CHL Situation Update No. 7 On 2010-03-03 at 19:11:38 [UTC] Event: Tsunami Location: Chile Región de Valparaíso Valparaíso Number of Deads: 5 person(s) Number of Missing: 10 person(s) Situation: According to reports in the Chilean media, a 12-year-old girl saved almost the entire population of a small island, 700km off the country's coast. The inhabitants of Robinson Crusoe Island were asleep as a massive tsunami, triggered by the earthquake which struck just off the coast of the mainland, approached. The buildings were smashed but most of the people survived. Robinson Crusoe is the largest island in Chile's Juan Fernandez archipelago. Peter Hodum, a biologist at the University of Puget Sound, in the US, has been running conservation projects on the island for a decade. Please DO NOT reply to this message: replies may be treated as errors and result in your subscription being deleted. If you have trouble or other queries, send email to havaria@rsoe.hu RSOE EDIS is operated by the National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE), Budapest, Hungary. Because of the complexity of this system and its dependence on other systems, we cannot be responsible for delays or failures in forwarding or transmission. You're receiving this AlertMail because you subscribed for the service. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Contact: havaria@rsoe.hu