 What happens that completely confirms Schwartzberg's theory?
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. The idea was not nearly so exciting as a volcano, even a lava-less one, and you couldn't draw a very dramatic picture of it. 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.
 An earthquake begins, and the fault starts to settle on either side, putting everything into motion.
 An earthquake begins, and the fault starts to settle on either side, putting everything into motion.  A landslip began to form along the fault, and the land continued to sink.  The tremors begin to increase in size.  A new lake was beginning to settle around the Arkansas River.