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- noun A piece of
equipment used to detecttsunamis , deployed across the open ocean to form a network for the purpose of early warning.
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Examples
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Measuring a Tsunami Coastal DART Buoy Sea Level Sensor (aka: "tsunameter") (aka: "tide station") 34
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While in the Indian Ocean, in 2004, we didn't have any tsunameter.
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And since the moment that the earthquake happened until the moment they get the information relayed from the tsunameter, it's less than a minute, because it has to go from the bottom of the ocean to the -- the surface of the ocean, where there's a buoy that relates that information to a satellite and down to Hawaii.
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