 What was the second phase of the natural disaster?
It has happened a hundred times in the long history of Earth—and, sooner or later, will happen again! Only Joseph Schwartzberg, head geographer of the Department of the Interior, wondered if the disturbance might not be a settling of the Kiowa Fault. 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.
 The falling rock that was giving way.
 The falling rock that was giving way.  The dust clouds that were taking over.  The flock of refugees seeking safety.  Annoyingly loud noises that halted progress on rebuilding.