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Tsunami Warning System Beefed Up

The NOAA recently installed five buoy stations off of the East and Gulf coasts and the Caribbean as part of the expansion of the U.S. tsunami warning system.

By staff Writer | Updated on May 25, 2006

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently installed five buoy stations off of the East and Gulf coasts and the Caribbean as part of the expansion of the U.S. tsunami warning system.

Referred to as Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART), the latest buoy stations were placed near New Orleans, La., Charleston, S.C., Miami, Fla., and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The system was designed and built by the NOAA to provide real-time tsunami detection as waves travel across the open ocean.

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