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Disastrous failure of natural dams

Nature

Dams can be formed naturally, typically as a result of landslides, avalanches, mud flows, or glacier activity. Most such dams fail rapidly and the sudden release of water temporarily formed into a lake can prove disastrous.

Broader

Dam failures
Presentable

Aggravates

Floods
Excellent
Flash floods
Presentable

Aggravated by

Landslides
Presentable
Earthquakes
Presentable
Avalanches
Presentable

Strategy

Removing dams
Presentable

Value

Unnaturalness
Yet to rate
Failure
Yet to rate
Disaster
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #9: Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureSustainable Development Goal #11: Sustainable Cities and CommunitiesSustainable Development Goal #13: Climate Action

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
1A4N
E0715
DOCID
11507150
D7NID
132930
Editing link
Official link
Last update
Feb 15, 2022