Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
Galaxy Magazine August 1963. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that It has happened a hundred times in the long history of Earth—and, sooner or later, will happen again! Everyone—all the geologists, at any rate—had known about the Kiowa Fault for years. That was before there was anything very interesting to know about it. The first survey of Colorado traced its course north all even the professionals were interested in knowing. There was never so much as a landslide to bring the Fault to the attention of the geologists speculated on the relationship between the Kiowa Fault and Nor was there much in the papers a few years later when it was By the mid sixties it was definitely established that the three Faults were in fact a single line of fissure in the essential rock, stretching impossible that it could ever be used except for sheep-farming. concern about the level of the water table throughout the entire area. Service was keeping an anxious eye out for the fires it knew it could expect. Dense smoke was reported rising above a virtually uninhabited The report was—no fire at all. The rising cloud was not smoke, but air. Rock slides, they guessed certainly no fire. The Forestry Service going dry, too, apparently from underground disturbances. Not even in Newspapers in the mountain states gave it a few inches on the front page anything is news in late August. And the geologists became interested. Seismologists were reporting unusual activity in the area, tremors too severe to be rock slides. Volcanic activity? Specifically, a dust volcano? Unusual, they knew, but right on the Kiowa Fault—could Labor Day crowds read the scientific conjectures with late summer lassitude. Sunday supplements ran four-color artists' conceptions of the possible volcano. "Only Active Volcano in U. S.?" demanded the headlines, and some papers even left off the question mark. It may seem odd that the simplest explanation was practically not mentioned. Only Joseph Schwartzberg, head geographer of the Department of the Interior, wondered if the disturbance might not be a settling of the Kiowa Fault. His suggestion was mentioned on page nine or ten 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 excuse the other geologists, it must be said that the Kiowa Fault some place in between. The dust volcano was on the face of it a more plausible theory. Still, it was only a theory. It had to be proved. As the tremors grew plane-loads of geologists set out for Colorado, without even waiting for their university and government department to approve budgets. They found, of course, that Schwartzberg had been perfectly correct. They found themselves on the scene of what was fast becoming the most violent and widespread earthquake North America—probably the terms, land east of the Fault was settling, and at a precipitous rate. of the land east and west of the Fault seemed no longer to have any 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, rolled about like pebbles as they shivered and cracked into pebbles themselves. "It looks like sand dancing in a child's sieve," said the normally impassive Schwartzberg in a nationwide broadcast from the scene of disaster. "No one here has ever seen anything like it." And the landslip was growing, north and south along the Fault. "Get out while you can," Schwartzberg urged the population of the affected area. "When it's over you can come back and pick up the pieces." But the band of scientists who had rallied to his leadership privately wondered if there would be any pieces. backing north into the deepening trough. At the rate things were going, Land west of the Fault was holding firm, though Denver had recorded 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. The geologists went home to wait. There wasn't much to wait for. The news got worse and worse. The Platte to add to the heaving chaos below. And the cliffs were higher every day As the Fault moved north and south, new areas quivered into unwelcome Virtually all east-west land communication was suspended and the President declared a national emergency. subsidence of the land was noticeable well into Kansas and Nebraska. On the actual scene of the disaster (or the surface in hot geysers and explosions of steam. churning land. Abandoning its bed, the river spread uncertainly across cliffs which rose in rending line, ever taller as the land continued to floods, in the usual sense. The water moved too slowly, spread itself Perhaps the North Platte disaster had been more than anyone could take. to be officially admitted that there was an exodus of epic proportion. demand for gas, but once inside the "zone of terror," as the newspapers State troops were called out, but moving two million people was not to On 21 October, at Lubbock, Texas, there was a noise variously described as a hollow roar, a shriek and a deep musical vibration like a church bell. It was simply the tortured rock of the substrata giving way. The The noise traveled due east at better than 85 miles per hour. In its wake the earth to the north "just seemed to collapse on itself like day. "Not tremors, exactly," said the captain of a fishing boat which was somehow to ride out the coming flood, "but like as if the land wanted to be somewhere else." "We must keep panic from our minds," said the Governor of Alabama in a radio message delivered from a hastily arranged all-station hookup. "We Then, as ominous creakings and groanings of the earth announced the by minute the advancing flood bit away miles of river bed, swelling north. Chicot, Jennie, Lake Village, Arkansas City, Snow Lake, Elaine, Helena and Memphis felt the tremors. The tormented city shuddered through the night. The earth continued its descent, eventually tipping 2-1/2 degrees down to the west. The "Memphis Tilt" is today one of forming, overtopping the wave's leading edge as towns, hills and the thirst of the soil temporarily broke the furious charge. Despite hopeful announcements that the wave was slowing, had virtually land was still sinking, and the floods were constantly replenished from the Gulf. Schwartzberg and his geologists advised the utmost haste in the water broke furiously on the newly exposed rock. It was the most because of the spray." The cliffs proved to be the only effective barrier against the westward march of the water, which turned north, gouging out lumps of rock and Mrs. Creeth when she afterwards appeared on a popular television ever have been called on to face, she added, "We sure wondered why typical. The world could only watch aghast as the water raced north under the shadow of the cliffs which occasionally crumbled, roaring, just ahead of the advancing waters. Some found safety in the peaks of almost the entirety Who today could imagine the United States without the majestic water's edge? Or incredible Colorado, where the morning skier is the The political situation has long been a thorny problem. Only tattered none of them wanted to surrender its autonomy. The tiny fringe of population decided to retain political integrity. This has resulted considered to have a continuing political existence. So, though there But this is by now no more than a petty annoyance, to raise a smile axis of world communication, a population explosion was touched off of be ranked with the first surge of pioneers which created the American

<question>:
What reason did the newspaper have to focus on the possible active volcano theory and not the opinion of the geographer?

<options>:
A There wasn't enough evidence to disprove the active volcano theory.
B There wasn't enough evidence to write about the fault line theory.
C Simply that the idea of an active volcano was much more interesting to the public.
D Joseph Schwartzberg was the only geologist saying otherwise.

<answer>:

C