14 Quotes by Michael Sheridan

This eruption is much larger than the ones that are currently anticipated at Vesuvius. What would you do with the evacuation of 3 million people? They're not coming back. There won't be anything to come back to.

There was this Bronze Age eruption about 4000 years ago, and then 2000 years ago there was the 79AD event. It seems that just about every 2000 years, there's been a major eruption of this scale at Vesuvius.

It seemed like the knowledge base was a lot deeper than it had been, ... The system seemed to be well thought out.

These volcanoes don't even have to erupt. They just sit there and a part of it comes roaring off.

Evidence shows that a sudden, en masse evacuation of thousands of people occurred at the beginning of the eruption. Everything was there.