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Brumadinho dam disaster, an Uncommon card
The Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019 when a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine suffered a catastrophic failure.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 143
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 45,000
Power 143 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Brumadinho dam disaster quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Brumadinho dam disaster card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
The Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January ____ when a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine suffered a catastrophic failure.
Answer
2010s. The Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019 when a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine suffered a catastrophic failure. From the Brumadinho dam disaster article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Ahmadou Ahidjo. Ahmadou Ahidjo 79,000 · Frédéric Bastiat 58,000 · Brumadinho dam disaster 45,000 · Indonesian National Party 35,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The dam, located 9 kilometres east of Brumadinho in Minas Gerais, Brazil, is owned by the mining company Vale, which was also involved in the Mariana dam disaster of 2015.
- The collapse of the dam released a mudflow that engulfed the mine's headquarters, including a cafeteria during lunchtime, along with houses, farms, inns, and roads downstream.
- 270 people died as a result of the collapse, of whom 259 were officially confirmed dead, in January 2019, and 11 others were reported as missing.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Brumadinho dam disaster article was read about 45,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Brumadinho dam disaster (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ibama from Brasil, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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