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What atmospheric phenomenon prompted the 1948 smog episode in Donora, Pennsylvania?

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Temperature inversion

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It was a phenomenon called thermal inversion, in which the change in temperature caused the air that was in the upper part of the atmosphere to fall, causing the death of 20 people and in turn health problems in another 7,000.
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