Five years ago: an aerial view of Minato, Japan, after the earthquake and tsunami. Lance Cpl. Ethan Johnson/U.S. Marine Corps

A new way to detect tsunamis: cargo ships

Reliably predicting whether a tsunami is large enough to require evacuations requires many more observations from the deep ocean than we now have.

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