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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. The dam collapses released an estimated 30 million cubic meters (39 million cubic yards) of water, [5] [6] causing flooding downstream as the Wadi Derna overflowed its banks.
Floodwaters from Storm Daniel are visible in Derna, Libya, on Sept. 12. Credit - Jamal Alkomaty—AP. I n Derna, the city on the coast of Libya all but swept away by flooding on Sept. 11, the ...
This combination of handout satellite images released by Maxar Technology and created on September 13, 2023, shows (L) an overview of Libya’s eastern city of Derna before the flash floods on 7 ...
The Great Man-Made River ( GMMR, Arabic: النهر الصناعي العظيم, romanized : an-nahr aṣ-ṣināʿiyy al-ʿaẓīm) is a network of pipes that supplies fresh water obtained from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System fossil aquifer across Libya. It is the world's largest irrigation project. [1] The project utilizes a pipeline ...
A view of buildings damaged in the flood due to Storm Daniel in Derna, Libya on September 14, 2023. (Hamza Al Ahmar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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, 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. The dam ruptured after several days of ...
Derna, a city of around 100,000 people on Libya’s north coast, faced the worst of the destruction when two dams collapsed this week in the face of huge rainfall caused by the Mediterranean storm ...
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. Forming as a low-pressure system around 4 September 2023, the storm affected Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey with extensive flooding.