So from what I learned about dams from last evening is that the Three Gorges dam isn’t “about to break,” it is already breached underground (“seepage”) and erosion due to this phenomenon is a self-reinforcing process.
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Mostly this video but there are related links/papers on the same topic. Looks like this is the typical mode of failure for damshttps://twitter.com/LoCtrl/status/1288471952860966918?s=20 …
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It is the only reasonable way this dam could fail
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