She discusses Florida's Lake Okeechobee, a reservoir where water levels have fallen so low that fires recently broke out on the lakebed.

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The quake led to stricter building codes in Mexico City, which sits atop a dried lakebed that can magnify the effects of the shaking.

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Just before conjunction, it drilled into a mudstone in a rock unit referred to as Sheepbed and found further compelling evidence for a watery past in Gale - sediments that possibly once formed a lakebed.

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