1975 Banqiao Dam failure: The River Dragon has come.

A witness said, on August 8, 1975: it “sounded like the sky was collapsing and the earth was cracking.” What came next was the single most deadly infrastructure collapse in human history.

Nov 7, 2025 | 19:46 | Lance Geiger

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