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Scientists monitor tsunamis using detection sensors in the Gulf of Mexico. Several sensor locations are shown on the map.​ Part ABased on the map of sensor locations, if a landslide in the Mississippi Canyon were to occur, which tsunami detection sensor location would likely provide the earliest warning of a tsunami for point X on the Louisiana coastline?  Asensor PBsensor QCsensor RDsensor S

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Scientists monitor tsunamis using detection sensors in the Gulf of Mexico. Several sensor locations are shown on the map.​ Part ABased on the map of sensor locations, if a landslide in the Mississippi Canyon were to occur, which tsunami detection sensor location would likely provide the earliest warning of a tsunami for point X on the Louisiana coastline?  Asensor PBsensor QCsensor RDsensor S

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