[OC] All-Time Deadliest Accidents and Disasters vs. One Year of Traffic DeathsSubmitted by databeautifier t3_11ij5le in dataisbeautiful
databeautifier OP t1_jaynmd6 wrote
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TIL a typhoon, hurricane and cyclone are the same thing! I was just going off the sources cited in the visualization and my first post which draw a distinction between them. Sorry for any confusion.
Funicularly t1_jayoncf wrote
Which space accident had 300 deaths?
databeautifier OP t1_jaypua5 wrote
The source (Wikipedia) categorizes the "Nedelin catastrophe" that way since a rocket exploded before launch and up to 300 people died. I go into more detail in this comment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/11ij5le/comment/jaypfgq
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