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The reservoir emptying through the failed Teton Dam on June 5, 1976 Ruins of the dam of Vega de Tera (Spain) after breaking in 1959. A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water or the likelihood of such an uncontrolled release. [1]
Machchhu Dam: Morbi India: The Machhu Dam-II collapsed, leading to the deluge of the city of Morbi and the surrounding rural areas. 1800–25,000 people were killed. [8] [9] 1979: Lawn Lake Dam: Colorado United States: Failed in fair weather due to a combination of poor construction, age, and neglect. Caused downstream failure of the Cascade Dam.
1971 Certej dam failure: Certeju de Sus, Hunedoara County, Romania: Dam: 89 dead, 76 injured 1972: Buffalo Creek Flood: West Virginia, US: Dam: 125 dead, 1,121 injured 1972: Königs Wusterhausen Central Tower: Königs Wusterhausen, Germany: Lattice tower: 1973 Skyline Towers collapse: Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia, US Building under ...
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St. Francis Dam failure Los Angeles County, California, United States 423 2 December 1959 Malpasset Dam failure 356 1 December 1923 Gleno Dam failure Bergamo, Italy 250–434 18 August 2008 Koshi Barrage failure Koshi River, Nepal 270+ 25 January 2019 Failure of tailings dam on Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine [41] Brumadinho, Minas Gerais ...
A history of flooding. Derna is prone to flooding, and its dam reservoirs have caused at least five deadly floods since 1942, ... Dam failures can be very hard to forecast, and are fast and ...
List of structural failures and collapses. List of bridge failures; List of dam failures; List of levee failures; List of mast and tower collapses; List of modern infrastructure failures; List of explosions. List of boiler explosions; List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions (BLEVE) List of major power outages; List of mining disasters
The partial failure of Minnesota’s Rapidan Dam sheds like on the almost 4,100 dams in the U.S. that are categorized at the same risk level and condition – or worse. ... “No major dam safety ...