“…Flooding from river levee breaches is a problem that often causes significant socioeconomic damages worldwide. Many countries have experienced such floods, among which Germany (Vorogushyn et al, 2010), Hungary (Nagy, 2006), Italy (Govi & Maraga, 2005;Viero et al, 2013), Bangladesh (Islam & Tsujimoto, 2011), China (Chen et al, 2012), Japan (Bhattarai et al, 2015), and United States (Sills et al, 2008) might be mentioned.…”