ALERT LINE INTERRUPTED

It may sound like fodder for a book plot, but officials in Indonesia believe that the deliberate removal of a tsunami detection system is not fiction. The Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting Tsunami (DART), installed to help predict tsunamis, is believed to have been disabled on purpose. Ridwan Djamaluddin, head of Indonesia's marine technology research center, suspected the cable holding the seabed sensor to a buoy was severed intentionally, possibly by a ship. He ...

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