Most seismologists are surprised, and frequently skeptical, that you can predict the magnitude of an earthquake before it has ended,

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

We used to think a magnitude 7.0 earthquake was too small to generate a tsunami.

We were surprised. We were scratching our heads. Something of this magnitude is really out of the ordinary.

In an earthquake, the motion is at surface, ... Back in '92 there was a 5.6 or 5.7 earthquake not far from Yucca, and there were scientists in a tunnel near the epicenter and they didn't even know an earthquake happened.

While we have expected weaker trends in orders, we were surprised by the magnitude of the 20% decline in the quarter given the significant community growth.