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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.
Images taken by satellite show the physical devastation from a flood that killed at least 11,300 people in the eastern Libyan city of Derna. Two dams above Derna burst early Monday under the ...
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 ...
I n Derna, the city on the coast of Libya all but swept away by flooding on Sept. 11, the surging complexities of climate change combined to devastating effect with the stubborn realities of ...
The Mansour (or Abu Mansour [83]) dam had a water storage capacity of 1.5 million cubic meters, while the Derna (or Belad [83]) dam upstream had a capacity of 22.5 million cubic meters [83] (1.5 million cubic meters by another source [80]). Floods in Libya, most of the additional rainfall from the storm fell outside Wadi Derna's basin
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 ...
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.