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Damage to a village house.

Damage to a village house.

Damage to a local school building. Guozhang Middle School.

Damage to a local school building. Guozhang Middle School.

Students having class in temporary movable plank houses.

Temporary movable plank houses for the students.

Landslide in the earthquake.

Total collapse of a reinforced building with masonry infill walls. Rubble has been disturbed by heavy equipment.

Emergency shelter camp for thirty families erected at the site of a former village.

People next to the ruins.

People next to the ruins.

Timberwork house with wood embedded in cement wall has little damage during earthquake.

Damage to a village house. Gaojiabian, Lushan.

People next to the ruins.

Damage to a village house.

Timberwork house with "soft connection" has little damage during earthquake.

To better understand the physics of debris flows and to make more accurate hazards forecasts in the natural environment, scientists perform controlled experiments at the large-scale USGS debris flow flume facility.

A close-up of the Kahauale‘a II flow burning vegetation at the forest line, just north of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō. The flow consists of numerous slow-moving pāhoehoe lobes.

This photo looks south towards Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, where a vent is supplying lava to the Kahauale‘a II flow, north of the cone. This slow-moving flow has reached the forest line, producing small scattered brush fires.

This photo looks south towards Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, where a vent is supplying lava to the Kahauale‘a II flow, north of the cone. This slow-moving flow has reached the forest line, producing small scattered brush fires.

The summit eruption in Halema‘uma‘u crater remains active. The lava lake is within the Overlook crater (the source of the gas plume), which is in the southeast portion of Halema‘uma‘u Crater.