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The United Kingdom's worst mining-related disaster took place in Aberfan, Wales on October 21, 1966. 144 people were killed when 297,000 cubic yards of coal waste slid down a hillside and crushed part of a village, and a staggering number of them were children. This is a disaster that definitely has a legacy of making things safer for the rest of us. It's tragic but fascinating, and the lives of the 144 lost in Aberfan deserve to be remembered.
Here are the resources I used to prepare for this episode:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/aberfan-disaster-mining-landslide
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/case-studies/aberfan-1966-landslide-case-study/
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/October-2016/Tipping-point
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/October-2016/Aberfans-engineering-legacy
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-58874233
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/10/25/A-disaster-that-wiped-out-a-villages-children/9667530596800/
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-42101460
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