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To a passing freighter, it is just another swell in an endless march of waves. But to the Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) buoy tethered nearby, it is the center of the world. Beneath this coordinate lies a silent landscape of abyssal plains, miles below the surface, where light hasn't touched the silt in millions of years.

The "story" of this place is one of solitude and surveillance. 491151.515397_388554

A pressure sensor on the sea floor that feels the "weight" of the entire ocean above it, listening for the tectonic shiver of an earthquake. To a passing freighter, it is just another

A yellow buoy bobbing on the surface, battered by storms that no human eyes see. To a passing freighter