Before and after the Brumadinho Dam Collapse (IMAGE)

University of Nottingham

Before and after the Brumadinho Dam Collapse

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Top left and the bottom right are Google Earth satellite images of the Brumadinho tailings dam taken before and after the collapse on 25 January 2019. Top right and bottom left show precursory movement across the dam (red and yellow colours), which the researchers analysed to find that the collapse could have been predicted.

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