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Missouri and Illinois are not unaccustomed to having parts of the state flood when the waters rise in the spring or summer. But recent floods have been baffling scientists as rivers crest and spill water into places that are typically dry this time of year.

After employees at the four-month-old Santa Clara County crime lab building packed their things for the night and locked the doors behind them, no one was the wiser to a vandal that slipped in to the state-of-the-art lab and took advantage of the full 24 hours it had to cause up to $1 million in damages. The vandal: water.

Scientists recently discovered that many recent earthquakes felt in the Midwestern states of the U.S. are really the aftershocks of large-scale earthquakes from centuries ago. The earthquakes on the West Coast, however, may be the aftershocks of earthquakes only dating back a decade or so.

Homes were left in a dangerous state in Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island after storms blew through the northeastern part of the United States, which required extensive documentation. The foundations of these beachfront properties were left exposed. Much of the beach on the island was left heavily eroded and a lot of sand and dunes were lost as a result of the storms.

Animals are affected by disasters. One may remember the hundreds of stranded, lost, and homeless pets seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Many families prepare an emergency disaster plan, but not all of them remember to include their pets in these plans.