If the ocean floor had a nervous system, it might look something like this: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables ...

Japan has developed an undersea warning system that can detect earthquakes 20 seconds before they reach land, significantly ...

The “megathrust” earthquake’s undersea magnitude was 9.0, recorded as one of the worst in Japan’s history. It began on the Pacific seabed 45 miles away from the eastern coast of Japan, as reported by ...

How Ionospheric Observations Might Improve the Global Warning System Recent investigations have demonstrated that GPS might be an effective tool for improving the tsumani early-warning system through ...

WASHINGTON — This month as Japan commemorated the 10-year anniversary of a tsunami that killed thousands of people, the United States has been reckoning with the vulnerability of its own systems ...

Japan has completed the world’s most advanced undersea earthquake and tsunami detection system—3,500+ miles of fiber-optic ...

Japan's new earthquake-sensing nervous system spans ocean fault zones, boosting tsunami warnings by up to 20 minutes and ...

But if it had been big, the scientists here would once again have been unable to tell if the quake had triggered a tsunami, because the Indian Ocean has no tsunami detection devices or warning system.

The United States’ predominant tsunami detection system suffered a nearly week-long outage this month, overlapping with the 10-year anniversary of Japan’s Tohoku tsunami, which left thousands ...

Japan launches worlds first underwater earthquake early warning system with 6,000 km of fiber optics Japan unveils pioneering fiber optic network for seismic safety and disaster preparedness ...

The Japan tsunami was detected by radar in Japan and California, the first time a tsunami has been detected by radar. The study teams hopes their work could lead to new early warning systems.