In the early morning hours of March 12, 1928, one of the worst engineering disasters in American history unfolded in a quiet canyon north of Los Angeles. At 12:03 a.m., the St. Francis Dam suddenly ...
On the night of October 9, 1963, a massive landslide plunged into the reservoir behind Italy’s 264-meter-tall Vajont Dam, triggering one of Europe’s worst engineering disasters. The impact generated a ...