Natural Disaster · 1985

The Town a Map Had Already Buried (Armero, 1985)

A wall of mud forty feet high pours down a valley in the dark and swallows a sleeping town of thirty thousand people. The volcano that sent it had barely erupted at all. It's the night of November the thirteenth, 1985, in Colombia.

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