 How has America transformed as a country after the events?
It has happened a hundred times in the long history of Earth—and, sooner or later, will happen again! 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. Tremendous fissures opened up perpendicular to the Fault, and a general subsidence of the land was noticeable well into Kansas and Nebraska. The western borders of these states, and soon of the Dakotas and Oklahoma as well, were slowly sinking. Nearly two million people were on the move, and the U. S. was faced with a gigantic wave of refugees.
 It's now a booming maritime location, with high population and economic growth.
 With millions of their people gone, America is still finding a foothold in this new world.  It's now a booming maritime location, with high population and economic growth.  Most of the states have separated and began to live independently again.  The political climate has been completely upended.