Der Einsturz der Deponie von El Cobre – 1965
Deutscher Text nicht vorhanden On 28th March 1965, at 12:35 p.m. two tailings dams serving a copper mine in El Cobre district (Chile) suddenly collapsed. (Picture: A copper mine impoundment in the Andes.) The small copper mining town of El Cobre in the path of the flow was annihilated with over 200 deaths occurring. This failure was triggered by a 7.5 Richter magnitude earthquake. The first impoundment (Antiguo) was commissioned in 1930, but after a new (Nuevo) dam was constructed in 1963, the Antiguo (old) dam was used only periodically as a standby. The dyke had been built by upstream