When a pressure sensor detects a tsunami wave, a modem sends out an underwater sound signal. Sound waves reflect off warm water layers on the surface down to relay stations on the bottom, and then to a cabled station that sends the tsunami alert to officials on shore. (Illustration by Eric S. Taylor, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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