Top 7 Biggest Engineering Disasters In History

St. Francis Dam Flooding (1928)

The St. Francis Dam was a solid dam worked between the years 1924 and 1926, to make a water store for Los Angeles. The dam was situated in a ravine around 40 miles (64 km) from the city. On March 12, 1928, only hours in the wake of being assessed by the Chief Engineer William Mulholland, the dam fizzled, sending a huge water wave 120 ft tall, and killing upwards of 600 individuals in one of the most noticeably awful American structural building debacles.

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