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Originally posted by DeltAlum
They keep talking about "Hearing from Denver." They really mean the USGS National Earthquake Center at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden -- a Western suburb of Denver. When I was with the local NBC, we had a permanent camera and microwave path there, and a repeater (boy, I have no idea how to spell this --- so maybe I won't try), one of the machines that makes the squiggly lines and measures earthquake intensity.
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seismometer 
So long as it ain't a sphygmomanometer (the technical name for a blood pressure cuff)! 
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