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Armero: A Journalist Remembers the Night the Earth Turned to Mud

By Hermogenes Ardila Duran - November 12, 2025

On the night of November 12, 1985, at exactly 10 p.m., the landline rang. “Get ready – the radio car is coming for you,” warned the night controller at the main station of Todelar, the national radio chain where I had been working for about a year and a half. Just a week earlier, we […]

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A Landscape of Loss: Forty Years After Armero

By Richard Emblin - November 11, 2025

Forty years after the catastrophe that erased Armero from the map, the landscape where the town once stood has taken on the quiet, uncanny stillness of an eroded manuscript. Vegetation has woven itself into the skeletal remains of walls and foundations, reclaiming what the earth so violently seized on the night of November 13, 1985. […]

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Guardian of the quake: Kit Miyamoto’s quest for urban resilience

By Richard Emblin - August 24, 2023

In the seismic shadow of history’s catastrophic tremors, Kit Miyamoto’s mission stands firm: fortifying cities worldwide against the impending earthquake era.

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Colombia’s Nevado del Ruíz volcano releases giant fumarole

By The City Paper Staff - July 27, 2023

The Nevado del Ruíz’s volcano activity continues despite a yellow alert issued by the SGC. On Thursday a giant fumarole soared 2,300 meters from the mountain’s summit.

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Nevado del Ruíz volcano still “unstable” despite change in risk levels

By The City Paper Staff - July 6, 2023

Despite the recent lowering of the Nevado del Ruíz’s risk level from Orange to Yellow, the active volcano remains unstable and registers emissions of ash and gas.

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Seismic activity of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruíz intensifying warns SGC

By Richard Emblin - April 14, 2023

An eruption of the Nevado del Ruíz would affect four departments in Colombia, including Cundinamarca. At least 22 communities in Caldas and Tolima are in a high-risk zone.

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Colombia’s Nevado del Ruíz remains on orange alert for eruption

By The City Paper Staff - April 3, 2023

The Nevado del Ruíz in central Colombia remains on orange alert after the Colombian Geological Service released an “extraordinary bulletin” regarding seismic activity in the interior of the volcano.

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The Children of the Nevado del Ruíz volcano

By Federico Rios - April 2, 2023

For the young residents of PNN Parque Nacional Los Nevados, life is a contrast between stark realities and imposing beauty of the Nevado del Ruíz volcano.

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The Nevado del Ruiz volcano taken from the heavens

By The City Paper Staff - March 25, 2023

This stunning image captured from the International Space station by NASA captures the grandeur of the Nevado del Ruíz volcano.

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Colombia’s Nevado del Ruíz volcano monitored for “explosive activity”

By The City Paper Staff - November 19, 2021

A unified command post has been established to monitor the Nevado del Ruíz volcano after a week of “unstable behaviour” and “explosive activity.”

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