14 Quotes by Bill Steele

Cycle after cycle, like the ticks of a clock, we get closer and closer to the point where one of these mega-thrust earthquakes are going to occur like happened in Indonesia last year. You can almost look at these slip events as ticks of that clock.

I've lost a dear friend; and, the guy I depended on for so many different things, here in the lab. He's irreplaceable. I don't know where we go from here.

Something's driving this train, and I think there is a growing consensus that at least fresh gases have reached older magma that is shallow in the volcano, activating it.

There isn't a consensus of exactly what is going on with this deep tremor. There's a lot of unanswered questions.

All of the dome-building that went on after the 1980 big eruption didn't have earthquake activity the way we're seeing it now.