NOAA has deployed the final two tsunami-detection buoys in the South Pacific, completing the buoy network and bolstering the U.S. tsunami warning system.

The vast network of 39 stations provides real-time data to the tsunami-warning system to provide coastal communities in the Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico with faster and more accurate tsunami warnings.

The final two deep-ocean assessment and reporting of tsunami (DART) stations, deployed off the Solomon Islands, will give NOAA forecasters real-time data about a tsunami that could potentially strike the U.S. Pacific coast, Hawai'i, U.S. Pacific territories, and Pacific Rim nations.

Tsunami sensors are now positioned between Hawai'i and every seismic zone that could generate a tsunami that would affect the state and beyond, including the U.S. West Coast. Buoys already in the western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean have been keeping watch over the U.S East and Gulf coasts.