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And there were (kai egenonto). “And there came” (same verb ginomai). See Rev 8:5; Rev 11:19 for this list of terrible sounds and lightnings, and for the great earthquake (seismos megas) see Rev 6:12; Rev 11:13 (cf. Luk 21:11).
Such as was not (hoios ouk egeneto). Qualitative relative with ginomai again, “such as came not.”
Since there were men (aph' hou anthrōpoi egenonto). “Since which time (chronou understood) men came.”
So great an earthquake, so mighty (tēlikoutos seismos houtō megas). Quantitative correlative tēlikoutos rather than the qualitative toioutos, to correspond with hoios (not hosos). And then houtō megas repeats (redundant) tēlikoutos. Cf. Mar 13:19 for hoia - toiautē about like tribulation (thlipsis).