Smoke billows from Iskenderun Port fire as people walk past collapsed buildings on February 07, 2023 in Iskenderun, Turkey. Burak Kara/Getty Images hide caption
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Lake Elsinore, Calif., was drenched Thursday by a storm that dropped rain and snow across much of the state. The National Weather Service is providing forecasts and warnings as usual, but employees are working without pay. Jae C. Hong/AP hide caption
A map provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the region that felt Wednesday's magnitude 4.4 earthquake. U.S. Geological Survey hide caption
A screenshot from a video posted by the Renville County Sheriffs Office shows the aftermath of a car driving into a chasm in the road. Renville County Sheriffs Office hide caption
Lava steams after it hit Hawaii's Green Lake, which had been filled with water hours before, on Saturday. U.S. Geological Survey via AP hide caption
Soldiers remove debris from a partly collapsed municipal building, which was felled by a massive earthquake, in Juchitan, Oaxaca state, Mexico, on Friday. Luis Alberto Cruz/AP hide caption
Native westslope cutthroat trout swim in the north fork of the Flathead River in northwestern Montana. However, cutthroat trout populations are threatened by hybridization from mating with rainbow trout. Jonny Armstrong/USGS hide caption
Austin Holland, research seismologist at the Oklahoma Geological Survey, gestures to a chart of Oklahoma earthquakes in June 2014 as he talks about recent earthquake activity at his offices at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla. The state had three times as many earthquakes as California last year. Sue Ogrocki/AP hide caption
Oklahomans Feel Way More Earthquakes Than Californians; Now They Know Why
Map showing seismic activity in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. United States Geological Survey (USGS) hide caption