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Evidence of damage to a building in Dujiangyan after the 12 May 2008 earthquake.

Evidence of damage to the Dujiangyan Tourist Information Center after the 12 May 2008 earthquake.

In Guyuan, an outdoor bathroom was created for those who stayed in tents because their homes were too dangerous.

Some families in Guyuan had to fashion tents out of whatever materials were on hand to avoid staying in their damaged homes after the 12 May 2008 earthquake.

Emergency medical tents were set up on street corners in Dujiangyan after the 12 May 2008 earthquake.

The 12 May 2008 earthquake was strong enough to damage this concrete wall in Dujiangyan.

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

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.

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.

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.

Man standing in front of collapsed home in Pengzhou.

Collapsed brick wall alongside a Pengzhou street.

Collapsed brick garages in Pengzhou.