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Puracé Volcano in Southwest Colombia Shows Increased Seismic Activity

By The City Paper Staff - November 25, 2025

The Puracé volcano in southwest Colombia has registered a noticeable uptick in seismic and gas-emission activity over the last 24-hours, prompting authorities to maintain heightened monitoring of one of the country’s most active volcanic systems. The Colombian Geological Service, known as the SGC, said the latest measurements indicate an increase in seismic signals associated with […]

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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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Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz and Global Rise of Volcano Tourism

By The City Paper Staff - November 7, 2025

Volcanoes are very visible when traveling through most of central Colombia and even though some remain dormant, hikers can climb up to the crater of the active Nevado del Ruíz

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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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The Nevado del Ruíz volcano from a Bogotá balcony

By Richard Emblin - June 5, 2020

On rare occasions, the active volcano Nevado del Ruíz can be seen from Bogotá, however, given good air quality over the Colombian capital, the views more spectacular than ever.

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Authorities closely monitoring seismic activity of Colombia’s Galeras volcano

By The City Paper Staff - June 15, 2018

A rash of low-intensity quakes near Galeras volcano in southern Colombia have authorities on alert given recent eruptions in Hawaii and Guatemala.

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