 How has America transformed as a country after the events?
It has happened a hundred times in the long history of Earth—and, sooner or later, will happen again! The even more ironic solution to the problem began in the summer of 1973. Newspapers in the mountain states gave it a few inches on the front page; anything is news in late August. They found themselves on the scene of what was fast becoming the most violent and widespread earthquake North America—probably the world—has ever seen in historic times. To describe it in the simplest terms, land east of the Fault was settling, and at a precipitous rate. East, where sharp reports and muffled wheezes told of continued buckling and dropping, the earth trembled downward.
 It's now a booming maritime location, with high population and economic growth.
 With millions of their people gone, America is still finding a foothold in this new world.  It's now a booming maritime location, with high population and economic growth.  Most of the states have separated and began to live independently again.  The political climate has been completely upended.