Nevado del Ruiz: Residents evacuated from slopes of volcano

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The Colombian Geological Survey has registered thousands of tremors a day

By Vanessa Buschschlüter
BBC News

Families living on the upper slopes of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia are being evacuated after an increase of seismic activity.

Colombia's Geological Service (SGC) has raised the alert level from yellow to orange, warning that an eruption bigger than any in the past 10 years could occur in the coming days or weeks.

In 1985, a powerful eruption of the volcano triggered mudslides that engulfed the town of Armero.

About 25,000 residents were killed.

In a statement, the SGC said that there had been minor eruptions of the volcano for the past 10 years but that its seismic activity had started to increase on 24 March.

Geologists say they have registered thousands of daily tremors, an unprecedented number since they began monitoring the volcano's activity.



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The park has been closed as a preventive measure

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Graphic video, of the ferocious volcano of 1985.
It may stay in your memory a while.

Colombia isn't that far away from the U.S.
Why didn't we hear about it here?