Colombian officials began to evacuate 40 families from their homes Monday after a volcano in the center of the country showed high levels of seismic activity that could signal an eruption in the coming days or weeks.
Officials also shut down a popular national park that surrounds the Nevado del Ruiz volcano and said that schools located within a six-mile (10 kilometer) radius of the volcano’s crater will hold classes online only when children return home from Easter holidays next week.
