Points of Divergence : Natural Disasters

Points of divergence concerning various natural disasters and catastrophes.

WI: A great natural catastrophe during World War One ?

Earthquakes and other catastrophes that could have changed the history of the Byzantine Empire

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• Earthquakes and other catastrophes that could have changed the history of the Byzantine Empire
• WI: A more devastating, earlier San Francisco Earthquake takes place
• The Vari Norman dam fails after the 6.7 Los Angeles earthquake of 1971
• Effects of a greater Sylmar earthquake in 1971 ?
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• Eruptions of the Yellowstone supervolcano
• Is it plausible to butterfly away volcano eruptions in a realistic timeline ?
• Same topic as the above, different thread
• Plausibility check: Could civilization prosper even during much greater volcanism than in OTL ?
• The Toba supervolcano eruption doesn't occur
• A Pre-Columbian Era supervolcano eruption ?
• WI: Supervolcano "wrecking" late 17th century Europe and ramifications of such an event ?
• The Great Plague of 304 AD - Connections have been made to volcanic eruptions of the time.
• WI: Vesuvius erupts in 2006
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• WI Great New England Hurricane of 1938 impetus for US Office of Civil Defense ?
• The Canary island of La Palma collapses, causing a megatsunami in 1777
• The Canary island of La Palma collapses, causing a megatsunami in 1783
• The Canary island of La Palma collapses, causing a megatsunami in 1812
• The Canary island of La Palma collapses, causing a megatsunami in the present day (1)
• The Canary island of La Palma collapses, causing a megatsunami in the present day (2)
• The United States after a La Palma megatsunami occurs ?
• WI: Powerful hurricane hits the US shortly after a huge Coronal Mass Ejection hits the Earth
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• Epidemiological PODs
• Plausibility check: Domesticated animals and disease
• Disease and Africa
• What if HIV began in ancient times ?
• The Great Plague of 304 AD
• WI: The Vinland Pandemic
• Wi European diseases spread to the New World during the Dark Ages ?
• The Black Death (13th century Europe and Asia)
• WI: Medieval AIDS ?
• WI Spanish Flu hit in 1913
• Spanish Flu and WWI
• WI: A world without HIV ?
• WI HIV not first found in gays ?
• WI AIDS became a worldwide pandemic by 1935 ?
• Worldwide epidemic
• Most severe non-ASB pandemic in 2016
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Irish Potato Famine

WI the North American drought of 1856-1865 had been averted ?

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Asteroid impacts

Plausibility check: Do all PODs based on meteor-caused natural disasters fall into ASB territory ?

WI a 1859-style solar storm happened today ?

WI: Solar superstorm in 2012

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