Barry Voight:. The mayor was talking and he said not to worry, that it was a rain of ash, that they had not reported anything from the Nevado, and to stay calm in our houses.
There was a local radio station and we were listening to it, when suddenly it went off the air. The priest from Armero had supposedly spoken on a loudspeaker [around p. When we went out, the cars were swaying and running people down. Suddenly, I heard bangs, and looking towards the rear of the hotel I saw something like foam, coming down out of the darkness. It was a wall of mud approaching the hotel, and sure enough, it crashed against the rear of the hotel and started crushing walls.
And then the ceiling slab fractured and. Since the building was made of cement, I thought that it would resist, but the boulder-filled mud was coming in such an overwhelming way, like a wall of tractors, razing the city, razing everything. Then the university bus, that was in a parking lot next to the hotel, was higher than us on a wave of mud and on fire, and it exploded, so I covered my face, thinking this is where I die a horrible death.
There was a little girl who I thought was decapitated, but. A lady told me, 'look, that girl moved a leg'. Then I moved toward her and my legs sank into the mud, which was hot but not burning, and I started to get the little girl out, but when I saw her hair was caught, that seemed to me the most unfair thing in the whole world. In , three Plinian eruptions killed people when a lahar swept down the nearby river valleys.
In , years later, mudflows again flooded the upper valley of the Lagunillas River, killing more than 1, people. Ruiz began stirring again nearly a year prior to the eruption, with early activity marked by earthquakes and fumarolic activity. In November , climbers on the mountain reported gas emerging from the summit crater.
In December, three earthquakes were felt within 20 to 30 kilometers of Ruiz. This activity continued into the next year. So, in early , emergency planning began. In response, a civic committee formed in the closest large city, Manizales, with the support of Chec and local government, to monitor Ruiz. But, on Feb. He recommended the immediate installation of a seismograph and the preparation of a hazard map. A Colombian electric company and Costa Rica sent seismographs and some other equipment, and USGS sent additional equipment to help operate the seismographs.
On Aug. The four seismographs sent by Costa Rica and the Colombian electric company had been poorly located, he noted in written communication. On Sept. It caught the attention of the government, however, which began to develop a response plan. Scientists began working to develop a draft of a volcanic hazard map. The dangers of lahars were obvious. The image was taken by the Expedition 23 crew. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast.
Lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Caption by William L. Eruptions at glacier-mantled Nevado del Ruiz Volcano in Colombia have been accompanied by deadly mudflows. Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.
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