Flood Impact Comparison (IMAGE)
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Results of the hydraulic simulations show the difference in flood impact when comparing the actual, dam-breaching flood (right) with the hypothetical scenario of no dams upstream of the city (left). Darker purple colors indicate higher flood power. The collapse of the two dams created a catastrophic flood, hitting the city extensively and destroying buildings (red dots). Without the dams the flood impacts would have been greatly reduced and focused in the stream channel. Damaged building analysis is based on the UN-Habitat’s report.
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Moshe Armon, Yuval Shmilovitz and Elad Dente, published in the original article
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