The Banqiao Reservoir Dam (simplified Chinese: 板桥水库大坝; traditional Chinese: 板橋水庫大壩; pinyin: Bǎnqiáo Shuǐkù Dàbà) is a dam on the River Ru (汝河), a tributary...

In August 1975, the Banqiao Dam and 61 others throughout Henan collapsed following the landfall of Typhoon Nina. The dam collapse created the third-deadliest...

event was the second-deadliest dam failure in history, after the 1975 Banqiao Dam failure in China. The collapsed dams were built under Gaddafi's government...

as Typhoon Bebeng, was a deadly tropical cyclone that triggered the Banqiao Dam collapse in China's Henan Province, China in August 1975. It formed on...

Catastrophic Dam Failures: The August 1975 Collapse of the Banqiao and Shimantan Dams", in Dai, Qing (ed.), The River Dragon Has Come!: The Three Gorges Dam and...

1975 (under the influence of Typhoon Nina) and resulted in the 1975 Banqiao Dam failure, with estimates of its death toll ranging from tens of thousands...

film is based on the award-winning short documentary DAMs - The Lethal Water Bombs, and the Banqiao dam disaster of 1975 that claimed the lives of 250,000...

Dam failures are comparatively rare, but can cause immense damage and loss of life when they occur. In 1975 the failure of the Banqiao Reservoir Dam and...

hours. The Morbi dam failure was listed as the worst dam burst in the Guinness Book of Records (before the death toll of the 1975 Banqiao Dam failure was declassified...

Taipei Banqiao Dam (板桥水库大坝), dam on the Ru River near Zhumadian, Henan that suffered an infamous failure in 1975 Banqiao Town (disambiguation) Banqiao Township...

4000/chinaperspectives.2593. ISSN 2070-3449. "Typhoon Nina–Banqiao dam failure | 1975 Banqiao Dam Disaster, Chinese History | Britannica". www.britannica...

design of the Banqiao Dam. Chen was born in Nanjing and was a vocal critic of the government dam building policy, which involved many dams in the basin...

Typhoon Nina in 1975 Banqiao Dam in Southern China failed when more than a year's worth of rain fell within 24 hours (see 1975 Banqiao Dam failure). The resulting...

January 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2020. "The Forgotten Legacy of the Banqiao Dam Collapse". internationalrivers.org. Retrieved 25 March 2020. "1975年那个黑色八月（下）（史海钩沉）"...

caused by hydroelectric power plants[citation needed] with failure of Banqiao Dam in 1975 resulting in 170,000-230,000 fatalities alone. As other common...

One of the deadliest incidents of all time is the Failure of the 1975 Banqiao Dam Failure, with varying estimates, up to 240,000 dead. Other incidents...

Yellow River flood Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu 930,000 1975 Banqiao dam failure Henan, Anhui 230,000 This dam failure was a landmark technological failure in the...

disaster. This was the first major oil spill at sea. August 1975: The Banqiao Dam failed in the Henan Province of China due to extraordinarily heavy precipitation...

Date Incident Location 26,000–240,000 8 August 1975 Failure of Banqiao Dam and 60 other dams in Ru River basin. Figure includes subsequent diseases and hunger-related...

However, various sources claim about 1,000,000. On August 8, 1975, the Banqiao Dam, in China's Henan, failed after a freak typhoon; over 200,000 people...

Chastise Malpasset Dam St. Francis Dam Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station "Historical Review: Bombings of Dams" (PDF). Bulletin. Canadian Dam Association...

18 May 2018. Luino, Fabio; Tosatti, Giovanni; Bonaria, Vittorio (2014). "Dam Failures in the 20th Century: Nearly 1,000 Avoidable Victims in Italy Alone"...

On July 26, in response to increasing water levels, the Ambuklao Dam and Binga Dam began discharging water at rates of 60 (2,100) and 65 cubic metres...

Catastrophic Dam Failures: The August 1975 Collapse of the Banqiao and Shimantan Dams", in: Dai Qing et al, The River Dragon Has Come!: The Three Gorges Dam and...

thunderstorms) or sudden release from an upstream impoundment created behind a dam, landslide, or glacier. In one instance, a flash flood killed eight people...

recorded energy accident, in terms of lives lost on a single day, after Banqiao dam in 1975. Despite the 1943 disaster on the hydroelectric Möhne Reservoir...

water and power cuts. Weather portal China portal List of floods 1975 Banqiao Dam failure July 2012 Beijing flood 2021 Henan floods 2021 China floods "Beijing...

greater metal fatigue than anticipated at the corners of windows. The 62 Banqiao Dams failure event in China in 1975, due to Typhoon Nina. Approximately 86...

insured against a catastrophic event such as dam failures. For example, the failure of the Banqiao Dam caused the death of an estimated 30,000 to 200...

Some of the notable storms here are Typhoon Nina, which caused the Banqiao Dam flood, which resulted in approximately 126,000 people dead, and Typhoon...