magnitude

“We had no idea of the magnitude of water we were going to encounter,” Kohler said.

“This doesn’t appear to be at all of that scale or magnitude,” he said.

"Assessing why this happened, what is the magnitude, and what to do about it took some time," IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva told reporters at the Fund's headquarters in Washington on Thursday.

The last earthquake of that magnitude struck Northern California in 1906, destroying much of San Francisco.

Holley attempted to establish that Kay’s drug use escalated year after year, saying there was “a complete failure by the Angels to grasp the magnitude of the problem.”