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Volunteers preparing meals in governmental relief camp in Dujianyan.

Balconies of severely damaged apartment building having collapsed on a Dujiangyan street.

Collapsed apartment building in Dujiangyan.

Extensive cracking on facade of damaged apartment building in Dujiangyan.

Civilians searching rubble on a Dujiangyan street.

Apartment building tilted backwards due to structural failure.

Cracked facade of damaged apartment building in Dujiangyan.

Cracked facade of damaged apartment building in Dujiangyan.

Cracked facade of damaged apartment building in Dujiangyan.

Partially collapsed residential building in Dujiangyan.

Civilians gathering their belongings in front of destroyed homes in Dujiangyan.

Tilted entrance to furniture store in Dujiangyan.

Cracked facade of damaged apartment building in Dujiangyan.

Baldcypress trees line the Medina River, as well as other rivers in the Texas Hill Country.  Many trees get uprooted or broken off from periodic catastrophic floods.  Photo taken in Bandera Park. 

Sandbar on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon deposited by 2008 controlled flood. The river is flowing from left to right and the location is approximately 64 miles downstream from Lees Ferry, Arizona.

Sandbar on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon deposited by the 2008 controlled flood. The view is looking downstream and the location is approximately 65 miles downstream from Lees Ferry, Arizona.

Scientists enter abandoned mine where bats hibernate in New York.

Samples collected by the automated sampler.

Orange seashell of a Giant lions-paw (Nodipecten subnodosus). Species identification is tentative.

Ornamented seashell of a fluted Tridacna. Tentatively identified as Tridacna squamosa.

Orange seashell of a Giant lions-paw (Nodipecten subnodosus). Species identification is tentative.