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I was born with a special gift the ability to mentally transform any situation

into the worst case scenario in my own brain.

My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest

disasters and find out who's to blame.

They say history repeats itself. Not on my watch. My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith and I am

The Alarmist. Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into the Alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk about history's greatest disasters and figure out who's to blame.

Today we'll be talking about the Capiopo mining accident of 2010, aka the Chilean mining accident.

Here's what you need to know.

August 5, 2010, started like any other day

at the San Jose Copper Gold Mine located in the desert landscape of Kopiapo in northern

Chile just 500 miles from the capital Santiago.

At mid-morning, some of the mine workers observed a sound that seemed unfamiliar

to them. A worker mentioned this to the mine's general manager, but was told not to worry,

quote, the mountain is just settling.

Later on that afternoon around 2 p.m.

mine workers heard a massive crash,

like a skyscraper collapsing as described in the book deep down dark by

Hector Tobar a single block of diorite as tall as a 45 story building was broken off from the rest of the mountain and is

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