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if only they had listened to the warnings of the catastrophe, nobody would have died nor would it have been a world catastrophe.  This is the story of the great catastrophe in Colombia where there were few survivors, unfortunately we will talk about them later.  The Armero tragedy was a natural disaster resulting from the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano on Wednesday, November 13, 1985, which affected the departments of Caldas and Tolima, Colombia.  After sixty-nine years of inactivity, the eruption took nearby towns by surprise, despite the fact that the Government had received warnings from multiple volcanological organizations since the appearance of the first signs of volcanic activity in September 1985. if only Had they heeded these warnings, the city could have been evacuated in time.  By the time rescuers reached Armero, twelve hours after the eruption, many of the seriously injured victims had already died.  This was the second deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.  It was a catastrophe that they knew was going to happen, due to the ignorance of the violent history of the volcano, since geologists and other experts had warned the authorities and the media about the danger during the weeks and days prior to the tragedy.  however they did not pay attention.  On the day of the eruption several evacuation attempts were made, but communications were restricted due to a storm.  A sufficiently large eruption can affect Bogotá with ash fall, the Colombian Government created the Directorate for Disaster Prevention and Attention, a specialized entity in charge of raising awareness among the population about natural threats.

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November 13, 1985
16:00 - 18:00 pm
Ashes began to fall and then later it began to drizzle.

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19:00 p.m.
The Red Cross launches the possible evacuation of Armero, and thus also of Honda and Mariquita, since a catastrophe was suspected.

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21:29 PM m.
The Nevado del Ruiz volcano explodes. With this explosion, 2% of the ice crown is released.

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21:30 p.m.
Ingeominas officials, located near the Paramo de Letras, reported the beginning of the eruption and recommended the evacuation of the entire community of Armero and surroundings.

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21:33 p.m.
The avalanche begins with a large wave of water from the ice that broke off from the summit of the volcano. This landslide subsequently causes the growth of the Lagunilla, Chinchiná, Gualí and Azufrado rivers, causing damage to 210 thousand hectares caused by the growth of the rivers.

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21:39 PM
The water caused a second avalanche that carries with it mud, rocks, trees and everything in its path. Anzoátegui, Fresno, Chinchiná, Palestina, Villamaría, Falan, Casabianca, Herveo, Libanon, Murillo, Villahermosa, Ambalema, Armero, Honda, Lérida, Mariquita, Cambao, Guarinocito, Guayabal, Santuario and Santa Isabel are affected by the mud that traveled approximately 44 kilometers with a speed that reached 80 kilometers per hour.

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23:30 p.m. m.
350 million cubic meters of mud and stones that devastate Armero were washed away.

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After the avalanche would come a more devastating tragedy from which those of us who were left alive have not yet recovered: the feeling of not having a homeland, of belonging to a place that no longer exists, these were the words of the people who managed to survive the tragedy, but despite surviving, they suffered quite a few injuries and burns, if only more people had survived, there would have been more points of view to turn to in the media.

Although some media reported the fact that a girl was trapped in the mud and rubble of her house, on the third day of her agony, little Omaira Sánchez asked the men who were fighting to get her out of the debris what date was she. Friday, they replied. “Oh, gosh, she replied, today was the math test. I'm going to lose the year”, If it had been possible to have more advanced machinery, it is likely that the gentlemen would have been able to rescue the little

Germán Santamaría, by then a chronicler for the newspaper El Tiempo, was the one who told Colombians the story of Omaira Sánchez. The journalist who, thanks to the stories he published in several installments, made her the cardinal symbol of the tragedy that wiped Armero off the map. A symbol that would become so universal that Paris Match magazine declared her one of the emblematic characters of the 20th century. Omaira was the girl who extinguished the volcano, if the newspaper's cornista had not made several stories, Colombians would not have known very well what happened in the gunsmith, in addition to the fact that thanks to him and his publications a symbol was made.

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Gabriel bravo is a survivor of this tragedy where he helped him rescue people after the avalanche and also to make mass graves for the people who died.

He himself said: if we had left the municipality on time we would'nt be in this tragedy.

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Another survivor is Mr. Jaime Guzman, where in his interview he says "After the avalanche there would be a more devastating tragedy from which those of us who are still alive have not yet recovered: the feeling of not having a homeland, of belonging to a place that no this"

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A surviving child of this tragedy, he returned to the town where he was born looking for answers from his family since he was adopted by a couple of doctors from Antioquia who could never have children and who came as volunteers to Armero to help with the wounded. "They say that I was up on the roof of a house, crying and calling my mother. And that I was, they believe, about two years old." Therefore, Esteban Salderriaga, after 30 years, went to look for clues about his biological mother, who had several hypotheses about what had happened to his mother, one was that she was the nurse in charge of applying the injections in the house and had a I work part time in the municipality of Venadillo and it is believed that at the time of the tragedy he was in that municipality, the bad thing as time has passed has not been the meeting of this family since the boy has not discovered new clues to know the whereabouts of his biological mother.