What If the World's Most Massive Dams Break

What If the World's Most Massive Dams Break A wall of water falling on land and flowing forwards in a quick and powerful mass of streams, eroding the ground and demolishing all structures it meets on its way, leaving nothing behind. It could’ve been a depiction of a tsunami, but it’s a human-made cataclysm: a dam failure. The earliest known disaster of this kind happened almost 1,500 years ago in the Arabian Peninsula, in the ancient kingdom of Saba. Today, a new dam stands in place of the historical one, built in 1980 and functioning well. A dam can be natural too, though, and when such a thing bursts, nothing good comes of it either. In Sweden, there once was a meltwater lake formed because of glacial debris blocking the course of a river. In 1794, locals received permission to dig a bypass canal to change the course of the river and safely transport logs through it. The work was finished despite many troubles, and the water began to flow... So what happens when dams fail? And what are the biggest dam failures of all time? #brightside TIMESTAMPS: The Collapse of Marib Dam 0:19 Dam failure in Sweden 1:31 The Oroville Dam disaster 3:13 The Taum Sauk reservoir failure 5:22 Dam on the Otter Tail River 7:27 Preview photo credit: Photo taken on July 18, 2020 shows the Three Gorges Dam opening the floodgates to discharge the floodwater on the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province: By Zheng Jiayu/Xinhua News/East News, https://ift.tt/3crLfkj Animation is created by Bright Side. CC BY 2.0 https://ift.tt/2U9WQfo Ruins of the Fergus Falls City Light Station, now known as Broken Down Dam, which collapsed in 1909: By Bruce Guenter/Flickr, https://ift.tt/2HlJObH CC BY 3.0 https://ift.tt/3dsgGLq The completed replacement reservoir, viewed from the scour created by the collapse of the original: By Kbh3rd, https://ift.tt/2ZY9gL2 Partial view of the dam's emergency spillway (left) next to its main service spillway (far right) (2008): By Martin Alfaro, https://ift.tt/2EojGvF CC BY-SA 3.0 https://ift.tt/39bhwKq Ruins of Ancient Ma'rib in Yemen: By Bernard Gagnon, https://ift.tt/3mKwvly Marib dam, Yemen: By Bernard Gagnon, https://ift.tt/2EqmWXB Ruins of the Great Dam of Ma'rib: By H. Grobe, https://ift.tt/3kJQBdR Dead Waterfall in Ragunda, Sweden: By Joel Torsson (Leojth), https://ift.tt/2RNHbS7 By KTrimble: https://ift.tt/3kxZLdg (Das neue Oberbecken der Stauanlage im Bau, November 2009), https://ift.tt/2FRHcC5 (Aerial photo shows reconstruction progress in late November 2009) Kraftwerk: By Kbh3rd, https://ift.tt/3kFHwm3 CC BY-SA 4.0 https://ift.tt/2ZubTCF An artist's depiction of the Great Dam of Ma'rib: By University_of_Calgery, https://ift.tt/2RRiRyA Oroville Dam, California, January 30, 2017: By Erthygy, https://ift.tt/3kGgUS5 Animation is created by Bright Side. Music by Epidemic Sound https://ift.tt/1NOjjY3 Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://ift.tt/1NR4JJP Instagram: https://ift.tt/2pDikkf 5-Minute Crafts Youtube: https://ift.tt/2pNb6gr Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://ift.tt/23rGg9b https://ift.tt/1eYTOMy https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: https://ift.tt/2d8ayZz