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China floods threaten collapse of world's largest dam: The Three Gorges Dam
American Thinker ^
| 07/07/2020
| Chriss Street
Posted on 07/07/2020 7:47:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Later that year, Saint Louis University seismology professor Lupei Zhu, Ph.D., working with a group of scientists from the China University of Geoscience in Wuhan studying Three Gorges Dam, reported that a 5.1-magnitude "earthquake occurred almost right beneath one of our seismic stations." Data verified that the main quake and aftershocks occurred in a narrow band along a previously unidentified fault that is connected to the reservoir.
To: SeekAndFind
Global warming is causing this drought flooding.
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posted on
07/07/2020 7:50:46 AM PDT
by
ArcadeQuarters
(Socialism requires slavery.)
To: SeekAndFind
Here we go Lupei Zhu!
Here we go Lupei Lai!
All on a Saturday night!................
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posted on
07/07/2020 7:51:29 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
To: SeekAndFind
It wont collapse because they will let out enough water to save it. The loss of face for the CCP from a collapse would be far greater than the loss of face for flooding out the cities downriver.
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posted on
07/07/2020 7:53:21 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
07/07/2020 7:53:41 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: SeekAndFind
I've seen numerous comments here that say if that dam collapses, it would be catastrophic.
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posted on
07/07/2020 7:54:15 AM PDT
by
laplata
(The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: SeekAndFind
Well if its made with the same lack of quality as the stuff they ship here its toast.
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posted on
07/07/2020 7:54:37 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
To: dfwgator
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posted on
07/07/2020 7:57:10 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: laplata
Yep. That’s why it will only happen if it can’t be physically opened enough to release enough water to prevent it, towns downstream be damned. Or is it dammed?
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posted on
07/07/2020 7:57:33 AM PDT
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cuban leaf
(The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
To: ArcadeQuarters
Maybe God is punishing them for their assaults on His church.
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posted on
07/07/2020 7:57:43 AM PDT
by
nhbob1
To: SeekAndFind
There is a satellite view from straight above the center portion of the three gorges damn. It shows the damn a few years ago, and a recent picture of the same spot. And its clear that the center of the damn has moved visibly over time. Some scientists believe that poor workmanship and materials as well as incompetent management of the damn make this a world disaster waiting to happen. If the damn breaks, There are over a 100 million people down stream who will be quite literally be wiped out along with their cities and villages. One such city is Shanghai.
See satellite photos here...
https://www.visiontimes.com/2019/08/16/satellite-photos-raise-fears-about-condition-of-three-gorges-dam.html
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posted on
07/07/2020 8:00:31 AM PDT
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poinq
To: nhbob1
The dam in Egypt the Russians built was cracking I remember from decades ago. what was the name? Aswan?
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posted on
07/07/2020 8:00:33 AM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: nhbob1
Maybe God is punishing them for their assaults on His church. Well then God should go after Bergoglio first.
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posted on
07/07/2020 8:02:50 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Mr. Jeeves
It wont collapse because they will let out enough water to save it. The loss of face for the CCP from a collapse would be far greater than the loss of face for flooding out the cities downriver.
They have been letting out water as much as they can for several weeks now. But they have weeks more before the rainy season ends. The reservoir is still rising with all the spillways open to maximum capacity.
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posted on
07/07/2020 8:03:40 AM PDT
by
poinq
To: SeekAndFind
I’d give us one chance in three. More popcorn anyone? </Capt. Marko Ramius>
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posted on
07/07/2020 8:03:42 AM PDT
by
null and void
(It never ends when you go down that slippery slope of digging for the truth.)
To: SeekAndFind
They should be fine, considering the historical high quality of communist infrastructure projects. /s
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posted on
07/07/2020 8:04:25 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: null and void
Dammit mashed post too quickly:
Dam, Id give us one chance in Three Gorges. More popcorn anyone? </Capt. Marko Ramius>
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posted on
07/07/2020 8:05:09 AM PDT
by
null and void
(It never ends when you go down that slippery slope of digging for the truth.)
To: SeekAndFind
If that dam goes so does a huge part of the Chinese infrastructure downstream and possibly a million lives.
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posted on
07/07/2020 8:05:42 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
To: cuban leaf
“...towns downstream be damned. Or is it dammed?”
Towns are damned, water is bedammed.
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posted on
07/07/2020 8:07:00 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: SeekAndFind
Just last week Three Gorges engineers were claiming there was nothing special about this year. Now Xi Jinping is reversing the party line out of necessity.
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