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The 12 May 2008 earthquake caused these buildings in Dujiangyan significant structural damage.

This home, on the road from Dujiangyan to Guyuan, was damaged in the 12 May 2008 earthquake.

Some buildings, such as this one in Guyuan, were extensively damaged by the 12 May 2008 earthquake.

After the 12 May 2008 earthquake, some people in Guyuan were forced to stay in tents because of damage to their homes.

Litter and debris line the nearly empty streets of Guyuan after the 12 May 2008 earthquake.

This picture, taken June 6, 2008 at Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge near Benoit, MS, shows a shallow pond in a former agricultural area planted with hardwood tree species typical of restoration areas in the Mississippi Delta region of northwestern Mississippi.

Three geese at a farm in East Texas. Two are displaying a defensive warning behavior, which was accompanied by a loud hissing sound.

The narrow waters of Drake's Passage separate the U.S. Virgin Islands (foreground) from the British Virgin Islands in the distance.

Papaya tree (Carica papaya) with multiple unripened papayas growing in Virgin Islands National Park.

The narrow waters of Drake's Passage separate the U.S. Virgin Islands (foreground) from the British Virgin Islands in the distance.

The Needles District, Canyonlands National Park

The Needles District, Canyonlands National Park. 

Graduate students hold a female king eider captured in June 2008 in northern Alaska. Researchers band the birds with a numbered metal band that allows individual identification. Female king eiders return to the same nesting area every year.

Graduate students take morphological measurements of every bird to estimate whether size affects migration strategy. Researchers measure the culmen length of a male king eider.

A sign from a rural home owner giving thanks to fire fighters who battled the Little Wolf fire that burned 15,000 acres in Western Montana in 1994. Wildfires continue to burn thousands of acres of forests and grassland along with homes each year across the nation.

Graduate student, Megan Jones, changes the batteries on a remote sensor camera used to monitor predator movement in Conservation Reserve Program fields in southwest Wisconsin.

Photograph of the Old Faithful Geyser erupting in Yellowstone Nationl Park. Old Faithful was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Yellowstone expedition and was the first geyser in the Park to be named.

Photograph of the Old Faithful Geyser erupting in Yellowstone Nationl Park. Old Faithful was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Yellowstone expedition and was the first geyser in the Park to be named.

USGS dive team members Marc Blouin and Glen Black carrying an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) into Lake Michigan to measure currents throughout the summer season in order to improve predictive modeling at recreational beaches and better predict E. coli concentrations in the water, therefore improve safety of swimmers.

Long crack stretching over facade of apartment building in Pengzhou.

An apartment building's damaged staircase seen from the outside.