======Points of Divergence : Natural Disasters ====== Points of divergence concerning various natural disasters and catastrophes. ==== General ==== **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256160|WI: A great natural catastrophe during World War One ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=120085|Earthquakes and other catastrophes that could have changed the history of the Byzantine Empire]]** Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ====Earthquakes ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=120085|Earthquakes and other catastrophes that could have changed the history of the Byzantine Empire]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=30887|WI: A more devastating, earlier San Francisco Earthquake takes place]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=4361|The Vari Norman dam fails after the 6.7 Los Angeles earthquake of 1971]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=214003|Effects of a greater Sylmar earthquake in 1971 ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ====Volcanoes==== * **[[Yellowstone supervolcano|Eruptions of the Yellowstone supervolcano]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=34599|Is it plausible to butterfly away volcano eruptions in a realistic timeline ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=119161|Same topic as the above, different thread]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=12991|Plausibility check: Could civilization prosper even during much greater volcanism than in OTL ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=145096|The Toba supervolcano eruption doesn't occur]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=23110|A Pre-Columbian Era supervolcano eruption ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=156327|WI: Supervolcano "wrecking" late 17th century Europe and ramifications of such an event ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=140290|The Great Plague of 304 AD]]** - Connections have been made to volcanic eruptions of the time. * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=29053|WI: Vesuvius erupts in 2006]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ====Fires, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, storms, etc. ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=156690|WI Great New England Hurricane of 1938 impetus for US Office of Civil Defense ?]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=55550|The Canary island of La Palma collapses, causing a megatsunami in 1777]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=217813|The Canary island of La Palma collapses, causing a megatsunami in 1783]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=205710|The Canary island of La Palma collapses, causing a megatsunami in 1812]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=2332|The Canary island of La Palma collapses, causing a megatsunami in the present day (1)]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=38981|The Canary island of La Palma collapses, causing a megatsunami in the present day (2)]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=188215|The United States after a La Palma megatsunami occurs ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=291425|WI: Powerful hurricane hits the US shortly after a huge Coronal Mass Ejection hits the Earth]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ====Epidemics==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=280|Epidemiological PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=135866|Plausibility check: Domesticated animals and disease]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=80287|Disease and Africa]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=347212|What if HIV began in ancient times ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=140290|The Great Plague of 304 AD]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=111799|WI: The Vinland Pandemic]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/european-diseases-spread-to-the-new-world-during-the-dark-ages.115530/|Wi European diseases spread to the New World during the Dark Ages ?]]** * **[[The Black Death]]** (13th century Europe and Asia) * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=271252|WI: Medieval AIDS ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=290056|WI Spanish Flu hit in 1913]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=79626|Spanish Flu and WWI]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=178043|WI: A world without HIV ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=296863|WI HIV not first found in gays ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=305793|WI AIDS became a worldwide pandemic by 1935 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=13223|Worldwide epidemic]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=364130|Most severe non-ASB pandemic in 2016]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ====Famines==== **[[Irish Potato Famine]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=274903|WI the North American drought of 1856-1865 had been averted ?]]** Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ====Cosmic catastrophes==== **[[pods:Asteroid|Asteroid impacts]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=244855|Plausibility check: Do all PODs based on meteor-caused natural disasters fall into ASB territory ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256388|WI a 1859-style solar storm happened today ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=322437|WI: Solar superstorm in 2012]]** Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== See Also ==== **[[pods:exotic pods|Exotic Points of Divergence]]** ---- ==== Navigation ==== **[[pods:pods|Points of Divergence Main Directory]]**