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Engineering failures Verified

12–13 March 1928

The St. Francis Dam Disaster

St. Francis Dam ruins in San Francisquito Canyon, United States

Minutes before midnight on 12 March 1928, the two-year-old St. Francis Dam failed in San Francisquito Canyon. Roughly twelve billion gallons of water swept through the Santa …

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