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2. Nevado del Ruiz - Wikipedia

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   Since the 1985 eruption, which destroyed about 10% of the summit ice cover, the area of Nevado del Ruiz covered by glaciers has halved—from 17 to 21 km 2 (6.6 to 8.1 sq mi) just after the eruption to about 10 km 2 (3.9 sq mi) in 2003. The glaciers reached altitudes as low as 4,500 m (14,800 ft) in 1985 but have now retreated to elevations of ...

3. Armero tragedy - Wikipedia

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   The summit of Nevado del Ruiz in late November 1985. At 9:09 p.m., on November 13, 1985, [23] Nevado del Ruiz ejected dacitic tephra more than 30 km (20 mi) into the atmosphere. [14] The total mass of the erupted material (including magma) was 35 million metric tons, [14] only three percent of the amount that erupted from Mount St. Helens in ...

4. Nevado del Ruiz is one of the deadliest volcanic eruptions in ...

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   The Nov. 13, 1985 eruption became known as the Armero tragedy -- the deadliest of its kind in recorded history. It claimed the lives of an estimated 25,000 people. Nevado del Ruiz is one of the ...

5. Katia and Maurice Krafft - Wikipedia

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   Following the onset of activity at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991, the Kraffts' footage of the impact of the 1985 Nevado del Ruiz lahar in Colombia, which had caused the Armero tragedy, was shown to large numbers of people, including the then president of the Philippines, Corazon Aquino, and was attributed to convincing a number of ...

6. Philippine officials order evacuation, urge caution after ...

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   Philippine authorities ordered the evacuation of residents living near a volcano in central Philippines on Tuesday following an eruption that sent a five km (three miles) high ash cloud into the sky.

7. Philippine volcano erupts, authorities raise alert level

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   MANILA (Reuters) -The alert level has been raised at a volcano in the central Philippines after it erupted, sending a 5-kilometre (3.1-miles) high ash cloud into the sky, the country's seismology ...

8. Omayra Sánchez - Wikipedia

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   In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sánchez and the second or maternal family name is Garzón. Omayra Sánchez Frank Fournier's photograph of Sánchez Born Omayra Sánchez Garzón (1972-08-28) August 28, 1972 Armero, Tolima, Colombia Died November 16, 1985 (1985-11-16) (aged 13) Armero, Tolima, Colombia Cause of death Killed by the volcanic eruption of Nevado del Ruiz ...

9. Lahar - Wikipedia

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   Lahars from the 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption in Colombia caused the Armero tragedy, burying the city of Armero under 5 metres (16 ft) of mud and debris and killing an estimated 23,000 people. [11] A lahar caused New Zealand's Tangiwai disaster, [12] where 151 people died after a Christmas Eve express train fell into the Whangaehu River in 1953 ...