Dam Name

Country

Age

Year of Failure

Fatalities

Reason for Failure

Brumadinho Dam (Zimmermann, 2019)

Brazil

43

2019

270

Structural flaws

Panjshir Valley Dam

(Associated Press, 2018)

Afghanistan

>50

2018

10

Structural flaws, heavy rain

Ivanovo Dam

(Cooper & Gleeson, 2012)

Bulgaria

75

2012

8

Structural flaws, heavy snowmelt

Kantale Dam

(Jayathilaka & Munasinghe, 2014)

Sri Lanka

>100

1986

180

Structural flaws, poor maintenance

Kelly Barnes Dam (USBR, 2015)

USA

78

1977

36

Elevated reservoir levels