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Boxing Day Tsunami: An elephant took me to safety

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77% Informative

Amber Owen , 28 , was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck under the sea in 2004 .

She was riding an elephant at the time the first wave hit and was taken to safety by the elephant.

Her story inspired the children's author Michael Morpurgo to write a book called Running Wild .

VR Score

71

Informative language

64

Neutral language

77

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

36

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not offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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Time-value

medium-lived

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