(20 quotes found)
“Don't dance on a volcano.”
French Proverb
“Yucca Mountain was formed 10 to 15 million years ago, and it's not a volcano; it's the result of volcanoes,”
Allen Benson
“These volcanoes don't even have to erupt. They just sit there and a part of it comes roaring off.”
Michael Sheridan
“It's a new way of monitoring volcanoes now, but this is going to be kind of the standard way of doing it.”
Chris Waythomas
“It's a volcano that is capable of a very high level of eruptive activity, based on deposits around the flanks,”
Dan Miller
“No erupting volcano in Alaska has ever been this closely monitored before.”
Game McGimsey
“In every (other) case, volcanoes have a monitor within five miles, but Crater Lake is a remote volcano, not near any town and it hasn't erupted very recently. To be frank, resources are limited, so we have to concentrate on the most likely ones: Rainier (near Seattle), Hood (near Portland) and South Sister (near Bend).”
Seth Moran
“That's probably one of the reasons we picked a volcano. It's enduring but unpredictable.”
Sheila Hughes
“It's extremely dry. Open up any chemistry book, it's awful. Everybody can do the volcano, everybody can do some of the science experiments where things flash and you get puffs of smoke. That's fun, it's entertaining for the kids, but it really doesn't drive home any of the principles.”
Harry Orf