On 27 February 2010 Robinson Crusoe Island was hit by a tsunami following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake . The tsunami was about high when it reached the island . Sixteen people lost their lives , and most of the coastal village of San Juan Bautista was washed away . The only warning the islanders had came from a 12-year-old girl , who noticed the sudden drawback of the sea that presages the arrival of a tsunami wave and saved many of her neighbors from harm
magnitude 8.8 earthquake
2010 Chile earthquake
Robinson Crusoe Island