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Dam failure, the Glossary

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]

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Act of God

In legal usage in the English-speaking world, an act of God, act of nature, or damnum fatale ("loss arising from inevitable accident") is an event caused by no direct human action (e.g. severe or extreme weather and other natural disasters) for which individual persons are not responsible and cannot be held legally liable for loss of life, injury, or property damage.

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Adana Province

Adana Province (Adana ili) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey located in central Cilicia.

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Adevărul

(meaning "The Truth", formerly spelled Adevĕrul) is a Romanian daily newspaper, based in Bucharest.

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Ajka

Ajka is a city in Hungary with about 35,000 inhabitants.

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Ajka alumina plant accident

An industrial accident at a caustic waste reservoir chain took place at the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant in Ajka, Veszprém County, in western Hungary.

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Aluminium oxide

Aluminium oxide (or aluminium(III) oxide) is a chemical compound of aluminium and oxygen with the chemical formula.

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Andalusia

Andalusia (Andalucía) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Attapeu province

Attapeu (ອັດຕະປື) is a province of Laos in the southeast of the country.

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Austin Dam failure (Pennsylvania)

The Austin Dam, also known as the Bayless Dam, was a concrete gravity dam in the Austin, Pennsylvania, area that served the Bayless Pulp and Paper Mill.

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Austin Dam failure (Texas)

The Austin Dam failure, also referred to as "The Great Granite Dam" failure, was a catastrophic dam failure near Austin, Texas that killed several dozen people in 1900.

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Austin, Pennsylvania

Austin is a borough along the Freeman Run (river) in southwestern Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.

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Avalanche

An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, such as a hill or mountain.

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Ōmu, Hokkaido

is a town located in Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Baldwin Hills Dam disaster

The Baldwin Hills Dam disaster occurred on in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of South Los Angeles, when the dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir suffered a catastrophic failure and flooded the residential neighborhoods surrounding it.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Benghazi

Benghazi (lit. Son of Ghazi) is the second-most-populous city in Libya as well as the largest city in Cyrenaica, with an estimated population of 1,207,250 in 2020.

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Big Bay Dam

Big Bay Dam was an earthen dam located 11 miles west of Purvis, Mississippi in Lamar County.

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Bihar

Bihar is a state in Eastern India.

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Biser, Bulgaria

Biser is a village in the municipality of Harmanli, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria.

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Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina

Boiling Spring Lakes is a city in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.

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Borzești Petrochemical Plant

Borzeşti Petrochemical Plant (formerly GIP - Borzeşti Petrochemical Industrial Group) is an industrial complex consisting of five large-scale plants: Synthetic Rubber and Petrochemicals Complex, No. 10 Oil Refinery, Borzești Chemical Plant, Borzești Power Plant and Chemical Equipment Company, being the largest industrial complex in Bacău County and the largest unit of its kind in Romania, which covers an area of, with an average length of and a width of.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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British Columbia Highway 97

Highway 97 is a major highway in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Broken Down Dam

Broken Down Dam (formerly the Fergus Falls Hydro Dam or Fergus Falls City Light Station) was a concrete hydroelectric gravity dam on the Otter Tail River in Otter Tail County, Minnesota in the United States.

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Brumadinho

Brumadinho is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais.

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Brumadinho dam disaster

The Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019 when a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine suffered a catastrophic failure.

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Buffalo Creek flood

The Buffalo Creek flood was a disaster that occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, on February 26, 1972, when a coal slurry impoundment dam burst, causing significant loss of life and property damage.

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Camará Dam

The Camará Dam was a dam located on the Mamanguape River in Paraíba, northeastern Brazil.

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Campos dos Goytacazes

Campos dos Goytacazes is a municipality located in the northern region of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, with a population of 483,540 inhabitants.

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Campos Novos

Campos Novos is a city in Santa Catarina, in the Southern Region of Brazil.

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Campos Novos Dam

The Campos Novos Dam (also known as Barragem de Campos Novos locally) is a hydroelectric dam in the Santa Catarina state in southern Brazil.

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Canary Islands

The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Canterbury Region

Canterbury (Waitaha) is a region of New Zealand, located in the central-eastern South Island.

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Castlewood Canyon State Park

Castlewood Canyon State Park is a Colorado state park near Franktown, Colorado.

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Central Java

Central Java (Jawa Tengah, Jawi Madya) is a province of Indonesia, located in the middle of the island of Java.

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Certej mine

The Certej mine is an epithermal gold-silver deposit located in the Apuseni Mountains of Transylvania in western Romania.

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Certeju de Sus

Certeju de Sus (Felsőcsertés) is a commune in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania.

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Chamoli district

Chamoli district is a district of the Uttarakhand state of India.

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Charles Hatfield

Charles Mallory Hatfield (July 15, 1875January 12, 1958) was an American "rainmaker".

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine.

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Coedty Reservoir

Coedty Reservoir is a reservoir in Snowdonia, North Wales.

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Dale Dike Reservoir

Dale Dike Reservoir or Dale Dyke Reservoir is a reservoir in the north-east Peak District, in the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, a mile (1.6 km) west of Bradfield and eight miles (13 km) from the centre of Sheffield, on the Dale Dike, a tributary of the River Loxley.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.

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Dam removal

Dam removal is the process of demolishing a dam, returning water flow to the river.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Döda fallet

Döda fallet (English: dead fall) is a former whitewater rapid in of the river Indalsälven in Ragunda Municipality in the eastern part of the province of Jämtland in Sweden.

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Delhi Dam

Delhi Dam, also known as Hartwick Dam, is an embankment dam on the Maquoketa River southwest of Delhi, Iowa that created Lake Delhi.

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Denver

Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Derna dam collapses

The Derna dam collapses were the catastrophic failures of two dams in Derna, Libya, on the night of 10–11 September 2023, in the aftermath of Storm Daniel.

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Derna, Libya

Derna (درنة) is a port city in eastern Libya.

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Desná (Jablonec nad Nisou District)

Desná (Dessendorf) is a town in Jablonec nad Nisou District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic.

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Desná Dam

The Desná Dam (locally known as the Burst Dam) was a dam constructed on the Bílá Desná river in the Jizera Mountains, which are in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic.

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Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam

The Kakhovka Dam was breached in the early hours of 6 June 2023, causing extensive flooding along the lower Dnieper river, also called the Dnipro, in Kherson Oblast.

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Doñana disaster

The Doñana Disaster, also known as the Aznalcollar Disaster or Guadiamar Disaster (Desastre de Aznalcóllar, Desastre del Guadiamar), was an industrial accident in Andalusia, southern Spain.

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Doñana National Park

Doñana National Park or Parque Nacional y Natural de Doñana is a natural reserve in Andalusia, southern Spain, in the provinces of Huelva (most of its territory within the municipality of Almonte), Cádiz and Seville.

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Dolgarrog

Dolgarrog is a village and community in Conwy County Borough, in Wales, situated between Llanrwst and Conwy, very close to the Conwy River.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Edenville Dam

Edenville Dam was an earthen embankment dam at the confluence of the Tittabawassee River and the Tobacco River in Mid Michigan, United States, forming Wixom Lake.

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Edenville, Michigan

Edenville is a small unincorporated community in Edenville Township, Midland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Eder (Fulda)

The Eder is a major river in Germany that begins in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia and passes in to Hesse, where it empties into the River Fulda.

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Edersee Dam

The Edersee Dam is a hydroelectric dam spanning the Eder river in northern Hesse, Germany.

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Elan Valley

The Elan Valley (Cwm Elan) is a river valley situated to the west of Rhayader, in Powys, Wales, sometimes known as the "Welsh Lake District".

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Elan Valley Reservoirs

The Elan Valley Reservoirs (Cronfeydd Cwm Elan) are a chain of man-made lakes created from damming the Elan and Claerwen rivers within the Elan Valley in Mid Wales.

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Embankment dam

An embankment dam is a large artificial dam.

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Explosive

An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

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Exxon Valdez

Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound, spilling her cargo of crude oil into the sea.

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Fatigue (material)

In materials science, fatigue is the initiation and propagation of cracks in a material due to cyclic loading.

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Fergus Falls, Minnesota

Fergus Falls is a city in and the county seat of Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States.

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Franktown, Colorado

Franktown is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Douglas County, Colorado, United States.

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Free State (province)

The Free State (Freistata; Vrystaat; iFreyistata; Foreistata; iFuleyisitata), formerly known as the Orange Free State, is a province of South Africa.

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French Riviera

The French Riviera, known in French as the i (Còsta d'Azur), is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France.

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Fujinuma Dam

The, was an earth-fill embankment dam in Sukagawa City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

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Fuse plug

A fuse plug is a collapsible dam installed on spillways in dams to increase the dam's capacity.

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Garhwal division

Garhwal (IPA: /ɡəɽʋːɔɭ/) is one of the two administrative divisions of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Lying in the Himalayas, it is bounded on the north by Tibet, on the east by Kumaon, on the south by Uttar Pradesh state, and on the northwest by Himachal Pradesh state. It includes the districts of Chamoli, Dehradun, Haridwar, Pauri Garhwal, Rudraprayag, Tehri Garhwal, and Uttarkashi.

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Geneva Conventions

language.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Glen Canyon Dam

Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page.

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Gleno Dam

The Gleno Dam was a multiple arch buttress dam on the Gleno Creek in the Valle di Scalve, northern Province of Bergamo, Italy.

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Gohna Lake dam-burst

The Durmi Lake dam-burst was a flood in the Garhwal Region of India in 1894 caused by a landslide-induced temporary lake.

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Great Sheffield Flood

The Great Sheffield Flood was a flood that devastated parts of Sheffield, England, on 11 March 1864, when the Dale Dyke Dam broke as its reservoir was being filled for the first time.

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Grout curtain

A grout curtain is a barrier that protects the foundation of a dam from seepage and can be made during initial construction or during repair.

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Gusau

Gusau is a city in northwestern Nigeria.

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Gusau Dam

The Gusau Dam holds a reservoir on the Sokoto River just upstream from Gusau, capital of Zamfara State in Nigeria.

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Gwalior

Gwalior (Hindi) is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; it lies in northern part of Madhya Pradesh and is one of the Counter-magnet cities.

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Hauser Dam

Hauser Dam (also known as Hauser Lake Dam) is a hydroelectric straight gravity dam on the Missouri River about northeast of Helena, Montana, in the United States.

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Helena, Montana

Helena is the capital city of the U.S. state of Montana and the seat of Lewis and Clark County.

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Henan

Henan is an inland province of China.

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Hesse

Hesse or Hessia (Hessen), officially the State of Hesse (Land Hessen), is a state in Germany.

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Hog's Back Falls

The Hog's Back Falls, officially known as the Prince of Wales Falls, but rarely referred to by this name, are a series of artificial waterfalls on the Rideau River in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Holme Valley

Holme Valley, formerly Holmfirth is a large civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.

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Hope Mills Dam

The Hope Mills Dam, also known as Hope Mills Dam #1, is a concrete gravity dam on Little Rockfish Creek in Hope Mills, North Carolina, USA, which created Hope Mills Lake.

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Hubert Chanson

Hubert Chanson (born 1 November 1961) is a professional engineer and academic in hydraulic engineering and environmental fluid mechanics.

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Hurricane Florence

Hurricane Florence was a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that caused catastrophic damage in the Carolinas in September 2018, primarily as a result of freshwater flooding due to torrential rain.

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Hurricane Mitch

Hurricane Mitch was the second-deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Idaho

Idaho is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Ide, Kyoto

Tamagawa River at Sakura in Ide is a town located in Tsuzuki District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

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Internal erosion

Internal erosion is the formation of voids within a soil caused by the removal of material by seepage.

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International humanitarian law

International humanitarian law (IHL), also referred to as the laws of armed conflict, is the law that regulates the conduct of war (jus in bello).

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Inuyama, Aichi

is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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Iowa

Iowa is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Iwakura, Aichi

is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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Jagersfontein

Jagersfontein is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa.

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Jämtland

Jämtland (Jamtish: Jamtlann; Iemptia) is a historical province (landskap) in the centre of Sweden in northern Europe.

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Jökulhlaup

A jökulhlaup (literally "glacial run") is a type of glacial outburst flood.

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Johnstown Flood

The Johnstown Flood, sometimes referred to locally as Great Flood of 1889, occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Johnstown is the largest city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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June 2008 Midwest floods

The June 2008 Midwestern United States floods were flooding events which affected portions of the Midwestern United States.

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Ka Loko Reservoir

Ka Loko Reservoir is a reservoir created by an earthen dam on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.

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Kakhovka Dam

The Kakhovka Dam was a dam on the Dnieper River (also known as Dnipro) in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, completed in 1956 and destroyed in 2023, which provided water for the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station (Кахо́вська ГЕС імені П.С. Непорожнього|Kakhovs'ka HES imeni P.S.

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Kameoka, Kyoto

is a city in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

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Kantale

Kantale (translit; translit) is a town in the Trincomalee District in eastern Sri Lanka.

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Kantale Dam

The Kantale Dam (translit, translit) is a large embankment dam built in Kantale, Trincomalee District, Sri Lanka.

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Kasugai, Aichi

is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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Kauai

Kauai, anglicized as Kauai, is one of the main Hawaiian Islands.

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Köprü Dam

The Köprü Dam is a gravity dam on the Göksu, the main tributary of the Seyhan River about northwest of Kozan in Adana Province, Turkey.

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Kelly Barnes Dam

Kelly Barnes Dam was an earthen embankment dam on Toccoa Creek in Stephens County, Georgia, United States, just outside the city of Toccoa.

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Kenmare Resources

Kenmare Resources plc is a publicly traded mining company headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

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Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill

The Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill was an environmental and industrial disaster that occurred on December 22, 2008, when a dike ruptured at a coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing of coal fly ash slurry.

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Koshi Barrage

The Koshi Barrage is a sluice across the Koshi river that carries vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic between Saptari district and Sunsari district of Nepal.

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Kosi Zone

Kosi or Koshi (कोसी अञ्चल, कोशी अञ्चल) was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restructure of zones to provinces.

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Kurenivka mudslide

The Kurenivka mudslide occurred on 13 March 1961 in Kyiv, then a city in the Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Kyzyl-Agash Dam failure

The Kyzyl-Agash Dam failure (Qyzylaǵash oqıǵasy), occurred in a dam located outside the village of Kyzyl-Agash, Jetisu Region, Kazakhstan.

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Lake

A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.

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Lake Iruka

is a reservoir located near the Meiji Mura theme park in Inuyama, Aichi, Japan.

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Lake Toxaway

Lake Toxaway is the largest privately held lake in North Carolina.

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Landslide dam

A landslide dam or barrier lake is the natural damming of a river by some kind of landslide, such as a debris flow, rock avalanche or volcanic eruption.

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Laurel Run Dam

The Laurel Run Dam, also known as Laurel Run Dam No.

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Lawn Lake Dam

Lawn Lake Dam was an earthen dam in Rocky Mountain National Park, United States that failed on July 15, 1982, at about 6 a.m., in an event known as the flood of 1982.

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Lesterville, Missouri

Lesterville is an unincorporated community in southeast Missouri, United States.

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Libyan crisis (2011–present)

The Libyan crisis is the current humanitarian crisis and political-military instability occurring in Libya, beginning with the Arab Spring protests of 2011, which led to two civil wars, foreign military intervention, and the ousting and death of Muammar Gaddafi.

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List of bridge failures

This is a list of bridge failures.

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List of hydroelectric power station failures

This is a list of major hydroelectric power station failures due to damage to a hydroelectric power station or its connections.

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Llyn Eigiau

Llyn Eigiau is a lake on the edge of the Carneddau range of mountains in Snowdonia, Conwy, Wales.

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Lorca, Spain

Lorca is a municipality and city in the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia in south-eastern Spain, southwest of the city of Murcia.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Lower Otay Reservoir

Lower Otay Reservoir is a reservoir in San Diego County, Southern California.

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Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided.

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Malpasset Dam

The Malpasset Dam was an arch dam (convex surface facing upstream) on the Reyran River, north of Fréjus on the French Riviera.

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Mancotal Dam

The Mancotal Dam is an embankment dam on the Tuma River near Asturias in Jinotega Department, Nicaragua.

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Mariana dam disaster

The Mariana dam disaster, also known as the Bento Rodrigues or Samarco dam disaster, occurred on 5 November 2015, when the Fundão tailings dam at the Germano iron ore mine of the Samarco Mariana Mining Complex near Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, suffered a catastrophic failure, resulting in flooding that devastated the downstream villages of Bento Rodrigues and Paracatu de Baixo (40 km (25 mi) from Bento Rodrigues), killing 19 people.

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Mariana, Minas Gerais

Mariana is the oldest city in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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Marib Dam

The Marib Dam (سَدّ مَأْرِب, or سُدّ مَأْرِب) is a modern dam blocking the wadi or valley of Adhanah (أَذَنَة, also Dhanah ذَنَة) in the Balaq Hills, located in the Ma'rib Governorate in Yemen.

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Martin County coal slurry spill

The Martin County coal slurry spill was a mining accident that occurred after midnight on October 11, 2000, when the bottom of a coal slurry impoundment owned by Massey Energy in Martin County, Kentucky, broke into an abandoned underground mine below.

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Martin County, Kentucky

Martin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Masvingo Province

Masvingo, previously named Victoria, is a province in southeastern Zimbabwe.

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Matagalpa Department

Matagalpa is a department in central Nicaragua.

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Möhne Reservoir

The Möhne Reservoir, or Moehne Reservoir, is an artificial lake in North Rhine-Westphalia, some 45 km east of Dortmund, Germany.

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Meadow Pond Dam

Meadow Pond Dam was an earthen dam in Alton, New Hampshire, in the United States, that collapsed in 1996, causing a fatal flood.

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Merriespruit tailings dam disaster

The Merriespruit tailings dam disaster occurred on the night of 22 February 1994 when a tailings dam failed and flooded the suburb of Merriespruit, Virginia, Free State, South Africa.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Molare

Molare is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about south of Alessandria.

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Montana

Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Monte Toc

Monte Toc, nicknamed The Walking Mountain by locals due to its tendency to experience landslides, is a mountain on the border between Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Northern Italy.

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Morbi

Morbi or Morvi is a city was founded as a princely state around 1698 by Jadeja Thakor Saheb Shree Kayoji Ravaji.

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Mount Polley mine

Mount Polley mine is a Canadian gold and copper mine located in British Columbia near the towns of Williams Lake and Likely.

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Mount Ruapehu

Mount Ruapehu is an active stratovolcano at the southern end of the Taupō Volcanic Zone and North Island volcanic plateau in New Zealand.

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New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Norwich, Connecticut

Norwich (also called "The Rose of New England") is a city in New London County, Connecticut, United States.

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Nova Kakhovka

Nova Kakhovka (Нова Каховка,; Novaya Kakhovka) is a city in Kakhovka Raion, Kherson Oblast, southern Ukraine.

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Oliver, British Columbia

Oliver is a town near the south end of the Okanagan Valley in the southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, with a population of nearly 5,000 people.

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Operation Chastise

Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special "bouncing bombs" developed by Barnes Wallis.

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Opuha Dam

The Opuha Dam is located on the Opuha River, a tributary of the Ōpihi River in South Canterbury, New Zealand.

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Ottawa

Ottawa (Canadian French) is the capital city of Canada.

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Overexploitation

Overexploitation, also called overharvesting, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns.

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Owari Province

was a province of Japan in the area that today forms the western half of Aichi Prefecture, including the modern city of Nagoya.

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Paddy field

A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro.

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Panjshir Valley

The Panjshir Valley (also spelled Panjsher; Dari: درهٔ پنجشير, Dara-i-Panjsher, literally "Valley of the Five Lions") is a valley in northeastern Afghanistan, north of Kabul, near the Hindu Kush mountain range.

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Panshet Dam

Panshet Dam, also called Tanajisagar Dam, is a dam on the Ambi river, a tributary of the Mutha River, about southwest of the city of Pune in western India.The dam was constructed in late 1950s for irrigation and, along with three other dams nearby, Varasgaon, Temghar and Khadakwasla, it supplies drinking water to Pune.

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Paraíba

Paraíba (Tupi: pa'ra a'íba) is a state of Brazil.

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Pasni (city)

Pasni (پسنى), is a city and a fishing port in Gwadar District, Balochistan, Pakistan.

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Patel Dam failure

The Patel Milmet Dam was a privately owned embankment dam located near the township of Solai, Nakuru County, in Kenya's Rift Valley.

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Paw Paw, Michigan

Paw Paw is a village and the county seat of Van Buren County, Michigan.

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Peat

Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter.

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Peruća Lake

Lake Peruća or Peruča (Jezero Peruča or Perućko jezero) is the second largest artificial lake in Croatia, after Lake Dubrava.

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Piauí

Piauí is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region.

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Polder

A polder is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Protocol I

Protocol I (also Additional Protocol I and AP I) is a 1977 amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions concerning the protection of civilian victims of international war, such as "armed conflicts in which peoples are fighting against colonial domination, alien occupation or racist regimes".

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Province of Bergamo

The province of Bergamo (provincia di Bergamo; proìnsa de Bèrghem) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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Pune

Pune, previously spelled in English as Poona (the official name until 1978), is a city in Maharashtra state in the Deccan plateau in Western India.

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Quảng Trị province

italic is a coastal province near the southernmost part of the North Central Coast region, the Central of Vietnam, north of the former imperial capital of italic.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Qyzylaghash

Qyzylaghash (Қызылағаш, Qyzylağaş), sometimes spelled Kyzylagash, is a village in Jetisu Region of south-eastern Kazakhstan.

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Rainmaking

Rainmaking, also known as artificial precipitation, artificial rainfall and pluviculture, is the act of attempting to artificially induce or increase precipitation, usually to stave off drought or the wider global warming.

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Ratnagiri district

Ratnagiri District (Marathi pronunciation: ɾət̪n̪aːɡiɾiː) is a district in the state of Maharashtra, India.

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Red mud

Red mud, now more frequently termed bauxite residue, is an industrial waste generated during the processing of bauxite into alumina using the Bayer process.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Reservoir safety

Reservoirs storing large volumes of water have the capability of causing considerable damage and loss of life if they fail.

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Ribadelago

Ribadelago is a village located in province of Zamora, Spain.

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Rideau River

The Rideau River (Rivière Rideau, Pasapkedjinawong) is a river in Eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Rishiganga

Rishiganga is a river in the Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India.

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Roane County, Tennessee

Roane County is a county of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park is an American national park located approximately northwest of Denver in north-central Colorado, within the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Ruhr

The Ruhr (Ruhrgebiet, also Ruhrpott), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Ruhr (river)

The Ruhr is a river in western Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia), a right tributary (east-side) of the Rhine.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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Saguenay flood

The Saguenay flood (Déluge du Saguenay) was a series of flash floods on July 19 and 20, 1996 that hit the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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San Diego County, California

San Diego County, officially the County of San Diego (Condado de San Diego), is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of California.

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Sanford Lake

Sanford Lake was a man-made reservoir located in Midland County, Michigan, but is no longer present since the failure of the dam in May 2020.

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Sanford, Michigan

Sanford is a village in Midland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Santa Clarita, California

Santa Clarita (Spanish for "Little St. Clare") is a city in northwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California.

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Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam

The Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam (Сая́но-Шу́шенская гидроэлектроста́нция, Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelektrostantsiya) is located on the Yenisei River, near Sayanogorsk in Khakassia, Russia.

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Sayanogorsk

Sayanogorsk (Саяногорск; Khakas: Наа Сойан Тура, Naa Soyan Tura) is a town in the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located on the left bank of the Yenisei River, south of Abakan, the capital of the republic.

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Sempor Dam

Sempor Dam (Waduk Sempor, Wadhuk Sémpor) is an embankment dam on the Sempor River in District Gombong, Kebumen, Central Java Province, Republic of Indonesia.

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Serbian Army of Krajina

The Serbian Army of Krajina (SAK, Српска војска Крајине, abbr. SVK), also known as the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina or Krajina Serbian Army, was the armed forces of the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK).

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Shadi Kaur Dam

Shadi Kaur Dam (also "Shadikor") was a dam located on the Shadi Kaur river about north of Pasni in Balochistan province of Pakistan.

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Sheba

Sheba (Šəḇāʾ; Sabaʾ) (1000 B.C- 275 A.D) is an ancient kingdom mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran.

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Shigang Dam

Shigang Dam is a concrete gravity barrage dam across the Dajia River in Shigang District and Dongshi District of Taichung, Taiwan, located near Fengyuan District.

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Silver Lake Dam (Michigan)

Silver Lake Dam is a dam located on the Dead River upstream of Marquette, Michigan.

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Sinkhole

A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.

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Situ Gintung

Situ Gintung (Sundanese, Lake Gintung) is an artificial lake near to the town of Cirendeu (pronounced) in the city of South Tangerang, Indonesia.

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Soběnov

Soběnov is a municipality and village in Český Krumlov District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

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Solai

Solai is a town in Nakuru County, Kenya.

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South Dakota

South Dakota (Sioux: Dakȟóta itókaga) is a landlocked state in the North Central region of the United States.

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South Fork Dam

The South Fork Dam was an earthenwork dam forming Lake Conemaugh (formerly Western Reservoir, also known as the Old Reservoir and Three Mile Dam, a misnomer), an artificial body of water near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States.

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South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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Spencer Dam

Spencer Dam was a run of the river hydroelectric dam on the Niobrara River in Boyd County and Holt County, Nebraska, about southeast of Spencer.

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Spencer, Nebraska

Spencer is a village in Boyd County, Nebraska, United States.

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Spillway

A spillway is a structure used to provide the controlled release of water downstream from a dam or levee, typically into the riverbed of the dammed river itself.

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Split-Dalmatia County

Split-Dalmatia County (Splitsko-dalmatinska županija) is a central-southern Dalmatian county in Croatia.

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Spokane, Washington

Spokane is the most populous city in and the county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States.

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St. Francis Dam

The St.

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Storm Daniel

Storm Daniel, also known as Cyclone Daniel, was the deadliest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone in recorded history, as well as one of the costliest tropical cyclones on record outside of the north Atlantic Ocean.

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Structural integrity and failure

Structural integrity and failure is an aspect of engineering that deals with the ability of a structure to support a designed structural load (weight, force, etc.) without breaking and includes the study of past structural failures in order to prevent failures in future designs.

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Subiaco Dams

The Subiaco Dams were a group of three Roman gravity dams at Subiaco, Lazio, Italy, devised as pleasure lakes for Emperor Nero (54–68 AD).

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Subiaco, Lazio

Subiaco is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, in the Italian region of Latium, from Tivoli alongside the River Aniene.

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Subsidence

Subsidence is a general term for downward vertical movement of the Earth's surface, which can be caused by both natural processes and human activities.

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Sukagawa, Fukushima

Sukagawa City Hall is a city located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

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Sweetwater Dam

The Sweetwater Dam is a dam across the Sweetwater River in San Diego County, California.

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Swift Dam (Montana)

Swift Dam is a dam in Pondera County, Montana, United States, on the southern end of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

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Taichung

Taichung (Wade–Giles:, pinyin: Táizhōng), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality in central Taiwan.

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Tailings dam

A tailings dam is typically an earth-fill embankment dam used to store byproducts of mining operations after separating the ore from the gangue.

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Tangerang

Tangerang (Sundanese) is a city in the province of Banten, Indonesia.

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Tangiwai disaster

The Tangiwai train disaster was a deadly railway accident that occurred at 10:21 p.m. on 24 December 1953, when a railway bridge over the Whangaehu River collapsed beneath an express passenger train at Tangiwai, North Island, New Zealand.

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Tapovan Vishnugad Hydropower Plant

The Tapovan Vishnugad Hydropower Plant is a 520 MW run-of-river hydroelectric project being constructed on Dhauliganga River in Chamoli District of Uttarakhand, India.

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Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station

The Taum Sauk pumped storage plant is a power station in the St. Francois mountain region of Missouri, United States about south of St. Louis near Lesterville, Missouri, in Reynolds County.

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Tazlău (river)

The Tazlău is a left tributary of the river Trotuș in Romania.

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Tephra

Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.

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Tesero

Tésero (Tiézer in local dialect) is a comune (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located in the Val di Fiemme about northeast of Trento.

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Testalinden Creek

Testalinden Creek is a watercourse that flows east into the Okanagan River, south of the Okanagan town of Oliver, British Columbia.

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Teton Dam

The Teton Dam was an earthen dam in the western United States, on the Teton River in eastern Idaho.

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Tigra Dam

Tigra Dam (also spelled "Tig Dam") creates a freshwater reservoir on the Sank River, about 23 km from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India It plays a crucial role in supplying water to the city and is an important tourism spot of Gwalior.

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Till

Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is diagnostic of till. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.

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References

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