question:  What is now a similar experience to what was once normal for shipping centers?
context: 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. 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. At the rate things were going, there might be a new lake the entire length of El Paso and Pueblo Counties. By 16 September the landslip had crept down the Huerfano River past Cedarwood. Land west of the Fault was holding firm, though Denver had recorded several small tremors; everywhere east of the Fault, to almost twenty miles away, the now-familiar lurch and steady fall had already sent several thousand Coloradans scurrying for safety. All mountain climbing was prohibited on the Eastern Slope because of the danger of rock slides from minor quakes. And the cliffs were higher every day as the land beneath them groaned downward in mile-square gulps. As the Fault moved north and south, new areas quivered into unwelcome life.
output:  The Cross-Canada Throughway
options:  The Cross-Canada Throughway  Traveling ashore to Newport  Traveling to the Oklahoma Oil Company  Traveling through the fringe of Kansas