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The Wadi Derna is a river valley in Libya which leads down from the Jebel Akhdar mountains to the port city of Derna. Like many other wadis in North Africa, it is an intermittent riverbed that for much of its length contains water only when heavy rain occurs. [1] It is 75 kilometres (47 mi) long [2] and drains a drainage basin of 575 km 2.
The Derna dam collapses were the catastrophic failures of two dams in Derna, Libya, on the night of 10–11 September 2023, in the aftermath of Storm Daniel.The collapse of the Derna Dam and the Abu Mansour Dam released an estimated 30 million cubic meters (39 million cubic yards) of water, [6] [7] causing flooding downstream as the Wadi Derna overflowed its banks.
No third dam appeared to have ever been built, recent satellite photos show. Ahead of Mediterranean storm Daniel, authorities also gave contradicting messages. They imposed a curfew in Derna and ...
Flash floods were unleashed down Wadi Derna, a river running from the mountains through the city and into the sea. The wall of water “erased everything in its way,” said one resident, Ahmed ...
Thousands of people were killed, with thousands more missing in devastating floods that hit Libya's Derna after Storm Daniel, fueled by civil war, corruption, climate change and neglect.
The Derna dam is 75 meters (246 feet) high with a storage capacity of 18 million cubic meters (4.76 billion gallons). ... “The current situation in the Wadi Derna reservoir requires officials to ...
Flash floods were unleashed down Wadi Derna, a river running from the mountains through the city and into the sea. People walk through debris after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Libya ...
Storm Daniel pounded Libya on Sunday night, unleashing heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding. The major destruction came when two dams on the Wadi Derna River burst, creating a wall of water ...