Overtopping Risk Analysis of Earth Dams considering Effects of Failure Duration of Release Structures

Table 1

Probabilities corresponding to linguistic description of likelihood.

Linguistic description	Probability of occurrence
Very likely	0.95
Highly likely	0.9
Likely	0.8
Fairly likely	0.65
Even	0.5
Fairly unlikely	0.35
Unlikely	0.2
Highly unlikely	0.1
Very unlikely	0.05