 What is now a similar experience to what was once normal for shipping centers?
It has happened a hundred times in the long history of Earth—and, sooner or later, will happen again! But after a week had gone by, the town of Edison, a good twenty miles away from the slides, was still complaining of the dust. Springs was going dry, too, apparently from underground disturbances. Newspapers in the mountain states gave it a few inches on the front page; anything is news in late August. Sunday supplements ran four-color artists' conceptions of the possible volcano. Only Joseph Schwartzberg, head geographer of the Department of the Interior, wondered if the disturbance might not be a settling of the Kiowa Fault. As the tremors grew bigger, along with the affected area, as several towns including Edison were shaken to pieces by incredible earthquakes, whole bus- and plane-loads of geologists set out for Colorado, without even waiting for their university and government department to approve budgets. 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. Atop the new cliffs, which seemed to grow by sudden inches from heaving rubble, dry earth fissured and trembled, sliding acres at a time to fall, smoking, into the bucking, heaving bottom of the depression.
 The Cross-Canada Throughway
 The Cross-Canada Throughway  Traveling ashore to Newport  Traveling to the Oklahoma Oil Company  Traveling through the fringe of Kansas