re: After 50 years it's time LSU stops ripping off Death Valley

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Seismic readings happen often at defining moments at major sporting events provided there is a seismograph near the facility. LSU's is only a thousand or so feet away from the stadium. It also didn't gain "lore" as the Earthquake game until a couple of years later when ESPN was trying to drum up interest in an Auburn LSU game in 91.

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Actually what was truly remarkable about the seismograph wasn't that the game registered, but that for 57 minutes and 30 seconds it did NOT register. It was the TD pass to Fuller that woke everyone up from a defensive struggle to finally make some noise.

So it was the striking difference from the vast majority of the game to the Fuller TD that was remarkable. I bet if you looked at the seismograph for the '79 USC game, it would've been pegged out the whole time and not just have some big spike at the end.

As has been noted, the seismograph is no longer there, but when it was, it used to register when the janitor would pass the mop on the floor close by the monitor. It was sensitive.