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About Ground Truth
Ground Truth is a catalog of dams, foundations, and tailings that failed where structure met earth — piping, liquefaction, an undetected fault, a reservoir slide — each autopsied as a load-path failure, the flooded valley left as aftermath.
What you'll find here
- The structure, the death toll, and the date of failure — stated up front, never buried
- A documented timeline, a three-act account, and exactly five contributing factors
- The load path and the mechanism: the named design or decision error that caused the failure
- Transferable lessons, and real references from the investigating body and named press
Ground Truth is part of Failure Forensics — a reference network that autopsies catastrophic engineering failures by the physics that destroyed them: overload, fracture, fire, and the ground.