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comment by greedo
greedo  ·  5003 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Tsunami Warning Systems Work
I wonder if it would be useful to have every commercial boat to carry a GPS device for tsunami detection. I'm guessing that the large number of boats could give satellites a good map of the ocean height. It might be more feasible than distributing and maintaining a system of buoys.

This post I just made gave me the idea: http://hubski.com/pub?id=623