 What major change happened to the country's landscape as the tragedy continued?
It has happened a hundred times in the long history of Earth—and, sooner or later, will happen again! It strikes us today as ironic that from the late '50s there was grave concern about the level of the water table throughout the entire area. 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.
 Several states totally sink, and water takes its place.
 State lines were made to be different after the upsets by the earthquakes.  Much of the landscape is upset by the earthquakes, throwing dirt and dust everywhere.  Several states totally sink, and water takes its place.  New cliffs and fault lines continued to form.