Pins matching tag:Flood

The St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon failed just before midnight on 12 March 1928, sending a flood about 55 miles to the Pacific and killing more than 400 people.

The thin arch Malpasset Dam on the Reyran River collapsed on the night of 2 December 1959 after weeks of rain, flooding Fréjus on the French Riviera and killing 423 people.

Typhoon Nina's record rainfall burst the Banqiao Dam on the Ru River in Henan on 8 August 1975, triggering the failure of dozens of other dams in the deadliest dam disaster in history.

Idaho's new Teton Dam breached around midday on 5 June 1976 as its reservoir filled for the first time, releasing the entire lake, flooding five counties and killing 11 people.

Typhoon Morakot hit central Taiwan on 7 August 2009 and stalled over the island, dropping up to 2,777 mm of rain, killing 755 people and wiping out the town of Siaolin in a landslide.

The Kakhovka Dam on the Dnipro in Russian-held Kherson Oblast was breached in the early hours of 6 June 2023, emptying a huge reservoir and flooding dozens of settlements.

On 23 September 2025 heavy rain from Super Typhoon Ragasa made the landslide-dammed Matai'an Creek barrier lake overflow, sweeping a wall of mud and water into Guangfu township in Hualien and killing at least 18 people.