As you sit upon the edge admiring a PYT, rinsing herself from the ashes of Mount Vesuvius (Italy)... one starts to think of the rumblings of Mount St. Helens (USA)... And to think that Nature's rumblings may be but a momentary happening in comparism to what Osama bin Laden... is suggesting that may re-occur! Because Vesuvius has not erupted since 1944, the responsibility for Macedonio and his 90 experts is ever more crucial.
The longer a volcano sleeps, the more powerful an explosion is likely to be when it awakens, Vesuvius monitors say.
If the observatory decides that Vesuvius is about to erupt, a series of wide-reaching emergency measures would be set into motion.
Chief among them would be the evacuation of 600,000 residents in 18 towns that sit on the volcano's skirt. "We are not working to let tourists know when to visit"!
The eruption in 79 AD that buried Pompeii in a sea of mud and ash was described in detail by Pliny the Younger, a Roman senator.
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