Farmers stay after evacuating Colombian volcano

Some farmers near the Colombian Nevado del Ruiz Volcano are tending to their cattle despite most of the residents have been evacuated in recent days. Colombia’s national agency for risk management issued an orange alert for the volcano after it noticed a greater-than-normal amount of seismic activity near its crater.

The alert indicates that an eruption is “probable” but not “imminent.”Last week, Colombian officials began to evacuate 40 families from their homes after the volcano showed high levels of seismic activity, but aiming to evacuate as most as 2,500 families in the area.

Dozens of towns are located along rivers that originate near the top of Nevado del Ruiz.The volcano’s last major eruption took place in 1985.It unleashed mudslides that buried the town of Armero and killed about 25,000 people.