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April 1, 2020 in downtown Los Angeles. As city officials implored residents to stay home to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, traffic in the infamously gridlocked city seemingly vanished. Activity around the world was so low in the spring of 2020, scientists measured less seismic activity.
Pump jacks are seen at dawn in an oil field over the Monterey Shale formation in California, where gas and oil extraction using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Seasonal afternoon thunderheads, which often result in lightning-caused wildfires, rise on August 1, 2005 near Big Bear, east of Lake Arrowhead, California.
Embers fall from burning palms, and the sun is obscured by smoke as flames close in on a house trapped in the Woolsey Fire in Malibu, California.
A full harvest moon marks the autumnal equinox as it rises over a desert mountain landscape made of huge rock formations near Jacumba, California.