You don't have time in Indonesia to wait for tide gauge data.

Time and tide wait for no man.

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Seismometers are just like microphones. They're buried in the ground and, when the earth shakes, they generate a current that goes via telephone lines or the Internet to a computer system that reads the arrival time and size of the shaking. If you have several seismometers, you can determine the location and magnitude of an event.

The tide has turned; the dust has settled. The controversy and lack of having hard data has been in a sense some noise for businesses, so they did not even hear the message. Now they want to move forward.

The first time you get in there to spar, you realize this person is punching you back. It's not just a big difference. It's shocking. It takes like a big deep breath and a couple days of thinking, 'Is this what I want to pursue?