article_snippet.sent: This type of failure is called shear failure.
article_snippet.sent: its first seismologist has not offered any conclusions.
article_snippet.sent: Remi Oldham, an SMU geophysics graduate student, runs a cable to connect the seismometer to communications interface equipment housed in the orange metal box in Willow Park, Texas.
article_snippet.sent: communications interface equipment housed in the orange metal box in Willow Park, Texas allows the transmission of the data collected by the seismometer back to SMU .