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Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia
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Armero, Colombia, destroyed by lahar on November 13, 1985.More than 23,000 people were killed in Armero
when lahars (volcanic debris flows) swept down from the erupting Nevado del Ruiz volcano. When the volcano became
restless in 1984, no team of volcanologists existed that could rush to the scene of such an emergency. However, less than a
year later, the U.S. Geological Survey organized a team and a portable volcano observatory that could be quickly
dispatched to an awakening volcano anywhere in the world.
-- USGS Photo by R. J. Janda, 1985
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03/25/02, Lyn Topinka