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The Real-Time Offshore Seismic Station has three main elements: an ocean-bottom seismometer; a stretchy, electrically wired mooring cable; and a buoy with radio transmitters that send observations to shore. (Illustration by E. Paul Oberlander, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)