PAGER

See also: pager

English

Proper noun

PAGER

  1. Acronym of Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response, a monitoring system for earthquakes.
    • 2013 September 24, Daniel Engber, “Major Quake in Pakistan: Two Reported Dead, Experts Guess Several Thousand More”, in Slate Magazine‎:
      The PAGER team takes information from a “shake map”—which guesses how much shaking there will be at various distances and directions from the earthquake’s epicenter—and compares that with a map of local populations.
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