Relatively older pictures were likely poor images from satellites and seemed to be easily shown as inaccurate.
If that is what it really looks like right now, then there is a serious problem.
The earlier shots were deformed more on the left side of that image, and the center didn’t look like that in any of the pictures I’ve seen.
Those earlier shots were bitmap splicing artifacts. I see that all the time on straight structures that appear wavy in the final product. Not just Google Earth but Apple images as well.
The latest image on Apple Maps shows “distortion” ... and the overhead power lines are completely straight. I don’t know when that image was taken, but the straight power lines indicates the image is not optically distorted. (Google Earth image from 2018 shows distortion on the power lines as well, indicating only optical distortion - not physical.)
If that is what it really looks like right now, then there is a serious problem.
The earlier shots were deformed more on the left side of that image, and the center didn’t look like that in any of the pictures I’ve seen.
The original (and the “current ones as well” are distorted greatly ( by tens of feet) due to the lens corrections on the satellite images. When the Chinese admit “the dam moved (this week ?) let us FIRST find out “how much it moved (this week, or after flood waters).
1/2 inch?
1 inch?
12 inches?