Martina Maturana

Martina Maturana

In 2010, a 12-year-old girl named Martina Maturana saved much of her village's population on the remote Chilean Pacific Island from being killed by a tsunami. She noticed the fishing boats bobbing crazily in the morning and ran 400 to the town square to ring the warning bell.

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