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What If the World's Largest Dam Failed?
A worst-case collapse of China’s Three Gorges Dam sounds like a nightmare: a wall of water racing down the Yangtze, overwhelming cities like Wuhan and Shanghai, crippling a basin that powers about 40 ...
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Explore 10 largest dams in the world and their incredible engineering feats
The Three Gorges Dam was built on the Yangtze River and is known as the most powerful dam by hydroelectric capacity to date.
During our recent ShakeOut drill, a number of people asked me about dam safety during earthquakes. I am not an earthquake engineer and by no means an expert in dam safety. But I have been poking into ...
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