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Deployment of surface buoy
(Shows a boat next to a yellow buoy. A cable goes down to the sea floor and two anchors hold the buoy in place.)
Deployment of tsunameter
(Shows a tsunameter leaving the boat and falling to the sea floor next to the anchored surface buoy.)
Earthquake
(Shows everything shaking.)
Seismographs detect potential seismic activity
(Shows a building labelled JATWC – Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre – where the seismographs are located.)
Tsunami
(Shows a wave passing over the tsunameter.)
Detects change in pressure
(Shows sensors on the tsunameter detecting change.)
(Shows a signal passing from the tsunameter to the surface buoy and up to an iridium satellite in the sky. This beams it back to the JATWC building.)
Deployment of surface buoy
(Shows a boat next to a yellow buoy. A cable goes down to the sea floor and two anchors hold the buoy in place.)
Deployment of tsunameter
(Shows a tsunameter leaving the boat and falling to the sea floor next to the anchored surface buoy.)
Earthquake
(Shows everything shaking.)
Seismographs detect potential seismic activity
(Shows a building labelled JATWC – Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre – where the seismographs are located.)
Tsunami
(Shows a wave passing over the tsunameter.)
Detects change in pressure
(Shows sensors on the tsunameter detecting change.)
(Shows a signal passing from the tsunameter to the surface buoy and up to an iridium satellite in the sky. This beams it back to the JATWC building.)
Australian tsunami detection system
20 November 2025
The JATWC detects, monitors, verifies and warns of any tsunami threat to the coastline of Australia and its offshore territories.