PROJECT 0126, SESSION NUMBER: 1, VIEWER: 025

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• Publication Date: June 7, 1988
• Content Type: REQ

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PROJECT NUMBER: 0126
DATE OF SESSION: 7 JUN 88
START: 1434
METHODOLOGY: CRV
SESSION NUMBER: 1
DATE OF REPORT: 7 JUN 88
END: 1507
VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 025
1. (S/NF/SK) MISSION: Stage 2 training. Site was the town of
Armero, Columbia on the day of a natural disaster (town washed away by
mud slide). Monitor intent was for the viewer to experience and
describe percepts associated with moving mud.
2. (S/NF/SK) VIEWER TASKING: Coordinates 0126/1185.
3. (S/NF/SK) COMMENTS: Excellent session from beginning to end. 025
experienced the first strong Aesthetic Impact (AI).
4. (S/NF/SK) EVALUATION: 1111111113
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first signs of an impending major
eruption. The U.S. Geological Sur-
vey said yesterday that Nevado del
Ruiz suffered "two catastrophic
eruptions" Wednesday. night be-
tween 11 p.m. and midnight. -
The back-to-back eruptions on
r the northeast flat k of the mountain
~ it melted enough ice and snow on the
y mountaintop to trigger what the
f USGS called "two catastrophic mud
) flows down the northeast flank,"
n which were channeled directly into
y the Lagunillas River in the broad
't valley at the base of the mountain.
0 Eyewitnesses said, the mud in four
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six volcanoes strung a IT arre eir gases, allowing pressure to
out in a line th ~qqugh nt al Colo, ~ G. Herdescr~ a 'd al"x x y~ em in a
Ap-prweOt 1~A+rn i~00 ,8t anon rWWj8 ih e ressure
the Andes Mountains, Nevado del down the valley to the Rio Mag- that builds up inside volcanoes, he
Ruiz has also been the most de- dalena, killing an estimated 1,000 said. "Hawaiian volcanoes are al-
structiv_e of the six Colombian ' vol- people" then living in the valley. ways blowing off pressure, which.
canoes, erupting in a "thunderous" Why did Nevado del Ruiz go al- might be one reason they don't
explosion on March 12, 1595, and most 400 years without a major erupt catastrophically."
erupting again in 1828 and 1829. eruption? Geologists say they don't Another reason lies with volca-
The volcano was "still smoking" in know, but many suspect it, is in. the noes themselves, among the most
1831 after its two 19th-century makeup of the magma that lies be- , unpredictable phenomena of nature.
eruptions. low the 'volcanoes that formed the Said Dr. Meyer Rubin of the USGS:
The Colombian mountain was Andes Mountains. "Volcanoes can go 1,000 years
also the scene of a major earth- "The magmas in the Andes are without an eruption. There's no
quake on Feb. 19, 1845, that shook very viscous and , `lckier, let's say, way to predict their behavior."
loose enough snow and ice on top of than the magmas that lie beneath ' The upward movement of magma
the mountain to trigger one of the the Hawaiian volcanoes,' Christian- can continue off and on for years,
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the weight of the racks above
are holding it in. The resuit ca
another eruption. The twin eru;
night could thus signal thesta
an eruptive period that ?cowG Ala
another 10 years.
There is also the chance
Nevado del Ruiz will have ?an im a
on the world's weather. Depen ii
on how much sulfur dioxide g is
.pumps into the upper atmosph r
the erupting volcano could se d
cloud of gas and dust around tl
world blocking just enough sun
from reaching the surface to
the earth by a degree or tiro.
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d surrounds and partially buries Armero, as seen from a nearby bill. The town center is inundated at lower right.
BY LARRY FOGEI-THE WASHINGTON POST
Some wept. Others, dressed only in the
underwear or bedclothes they had on when
the disaster struck, shivered in shock in
the warm air here.
CPYRGHT. . CPYRGHT'
Ruined Town's Survivors
Describe Night
D bian rescue workers assist a woman washed away from the town of Armero by the muddy flood waters.
1 church-a 5- or.6-story build- after a natural dam . of rocks and - . But less accurately-as last
was almost completely buried, stone above the town broke under night's events proved-the report
i id. i the force of onrushing waters. . also predicted that the flow of mud
everry made it to safety, he The destructive mud flows had would be slow and easily permit, the
1 ined, by building a bridge to been predicted in a report evacuation of surrounding popula-
i round with bits of wood, pick- presented only yesterday by Colom- tions. Citing Armero specifically,
h s Way past pieces of pots, tele- bian geologists. The report was or- the study-as summarized in to-
o sets, homes and bodies. ' dered several months ago after day's editions of the Colombian dai-
aking calmly but bitterly, the ..-Nevado .del -Ruiz_started showing ly El Tiempo--said the town could
p al administrator criticized early signs of reawakening. It was be cleared within two hours without
e nment authorities for hesitat- the scene of an earthquake in 1845 danger.
fore declaring an emergency that set ff floods an li
ed
t
o
. to re
Ports of volcanic activity 1.OQ0, it Il t~ r"rR'4@cA'r easel MDIOS#8tMA
3 .m. yesterday, he said, nation- quin Acosta. tral air traffic corridor and its ex-
. ARMERO, From Al
her and her family as they climbed
to the second story to pray for their
lives.
Sandra Patricia Perez, 13, her
in Armero instructed him to take
cover in the stadium. There; he saw
perhaps 3,000 people - pressing
against the entrance when the tor-
rent of hot mud came over them.
He, too, was immersed: in the
face badly scratched and her head flood, he said, which scalded his
wrapped in a white cloth, said she body. Holding to a tree branch, he
nearly choked beneath the mud but, drifted six miles ' to the. town of
somehow remained conscious as Guayaval, where at 5:30 this morn-
she tumbled away from Armero in ing he was rescued. "I was just
the flood. about to give up," he said. His wife,
Hortensia Oliveros, 19 years old eight months pregnant,..-has not
and eight months pregnant, saw the . been found.
rushing water sweep : their 11- In this town, about six, miles
month-old child out of her hus- north of Amero, flood waters
band's arms. In the panic, she heard knocked out a bridge spanning the
g~Q A ~ Guali River and demolished 10 to
t~t e q b she8 20 waterside homes, said residents.
heard of him. She ended up near a Some people decided to evacuate,
but hundreds of curious onlookers
rnad ntttcidP of Armarn crrPamina
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