Given the task definition and input, reply with output. This is a paraphrasing task. In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate another sentence which express same meaning as the input using different words.

and lucky for him and lucky for us , before that earthquake there was actually a bunch of seismographic stations already in the area .
fortunately for him , even for us in this area , before the earthquake , there were several seismographic stations .