Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25626-20160207194855

We don't have many OTL natural disasters at this point, so I'm throwing this out to the board.

Jonathan's recent addition of the Golden Gate Bridge page references the 1989 Earthquake and its role in T2G (a reference I'd forgotten about). The quake is also referenced in Curious Notions.

It's overstating things to say the earthquake is important to either of those works, but the references do give some insight into how those timelines work. In T2G, the quake killed the hypothetical bridge which was 60 years behind schedule anyway (thereby showing how technologically conservative the NAU is). In CN, we learn that, thanks to German occupation, the U.S. couldn't afford to do much to repair after the quake, and even in 2096, the buildings looked shoddy and damaged (thereby demonstrating what a fifth-rate country the US is in that timeline).

So I think we can justify a reasonably good article on the 1989 'quake. Thoughts?  