The largest earthen dam in the U.S., it was constructed on an active fault line in the 1950s and filled in 1968.

奥罗维尔坝是美国最大的土坝，20世纪50年代建在一个活动频繁的断层带上，1968年开始蓄水。

youdao

Meanwhile, downstream communities faced a risk of a flood should the landslide lake break through the earthen dam suddenly.

与此同时，下游地区则面临着堰塞湖突然溃坝导致洪水泛滥的风险。

youdao

Most residents were sleeping when the earthen dam collapsed, sending 70 million cubic feet of water crashed down on their homes.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

Afterward,most observers blamed the rich yachtsmen and their leaky earthen dam for the deaths of 2,200 men, women and children.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

High in those mountains, behind a crude earthen dam, wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their friends sailed yachts on a pretty private lake.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

Southwest Airlines spokesperson Linda Rutherford said an earthen dam at the end of the runway was interfering with the signal being sent to inbound flights.

CNN: Navigation alert went out to pilots weeks before Buffalo crash

Chaney were found buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi.

CNN: Sunday,