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safeinOhio

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Wed Sep 2, 2020, 09:25 AM Sep 2020

Three Gorges Dam Moved, Ignores Numerous Prior Reports and Says It Just Happened Last Weekend

The dam was a pet project of the late Premier Li Peng and a monumental pride of the nation when it blocked and diverted Asia’s largest river in 1997.

The deformation occurred last Saturday when the flood from western provinces including Sichuan and Chongqing along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River peaked at a record-setting 61,000 cubic meters per second, according to China Three Gorges Corporation, a state-owned enterprise that manages the dam and the sprawling power plant underneath it.

The company noted that parts of the dam had “deformed slightly,” displacing some external structures, and seepage into the main outlet walls had also been reported throughout the 18 hours on Saturday and Sunday when water was discharged though its outlets.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/frightening-china-admits-three-gorges-dam-moved-ignores-numerous-prior-reports-says-just-happened-last-weekend/

Please consider the source, sorry.

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Three Gorges Dam Moved, Ignores Numerous Prior Reports and Says It Just Happened Last Weekend (Original Post) safeinOhio Sep 2020 OP
dams that deform are usually followed by collapse beachbumbob Sep 2020 #1
Reports have been documenting the gradual deformation of that dam for years. Mike 03 Sep 2020 #2
6/100ths of a millionth of a second? Interesting theoretical point grantcart Sep 2020 #3

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
2. Reports have been documenting the gradual deformation of that dam for years.
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 09:39 AM
Sep 2020

You can find "before" and "after" images online. I'm sure the recent floods have accelerated the problem.

That dam has displaced so much water that it has altered the earth's rotation slightly:

CHINESE DAM SLOWS DOWN EARTH'S ROTATION

https://www.kinetica.co.uk/2014/03/27/chinese-dam-slows-down-earths-rotation/#:~:text=When%20the%20Three%20Gorges%20Dam,rotation%20to%20move%20more%20slowly.

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