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The slightly arched dam is situated in the 360-metre (1,180 ft) high Montalban Gorge or Wawa Gorge, [3] a water gap in the Sierra Madre Mountains, east of Manila. Scenery in June 2013 Construction of the dam began in 1904, and it became operational in 1909, during the American colonial era , to provide the water needs for Manila .
Satellite images of the affected areas on 6 May (top) and 20 April (bottom), during and before the floods. An atmospheric block, caused by a high-pressure system in Centro-Sul, prevented the displacement of typical meteorological systems (such as extratropical cyclones, cold fronts, and troughs) that cause precipitation. [9]
Machchhu Dam: Morbi India: The Machhu Dam-II collapsed, leading to the deluge of the city of Morbi and the surrounding rural areas. 1800–25,000 people were killed. [8] [9] 1979: Lawn Lake Dam: Colorado United States: Failed in fair weather due to a combination of poor construction, age, and neglect. Caused downstream failure of the Cascade Dam.
Two weather-related deaths in Mississippi. ... The physical condition of the dam is "unchanged," and a dam breach is "NOT imminent," officials said. May 12, 2011 - At Arkabutla lake flooding has ...
In the 2010s, that dropped to about 40 per day, the World Meteorological Organization said in a report Wednesday that looks at more than 11,000 weather disasters in the past half-century.
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The heat-related death rate in the U.S. (heat being either an underlying or a contributing cause) has increased since the mid 2010s. [4] Between 1979 and 2014, the death rate as a direct result of exposure to heat (underlying cause of death) generally hovered around 0.5 to 1 deaths per million people, with spikes in certain years.
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