Natural Disasters are random events in Plague Inc.. Once a natural disaster occurs, the player will be notified via RMS/WHO reports. A natural disaster kills people in the affected country, with deaths ranging from less than one hundred people to several thousand. Keep in mind that the player's plague is not the cause of those deaths, and as such, his/her plague will not be spotted. A Natural Disaster can kill off infected people in a country, and if the infected count is still low, this can reset all of one's progress in that country. It can also cause the destruction of research facilities and labs, and will slow cure research in said country.
Earthquake[]
An Earthquake is a natural disaster that occurs during the game. It may kill hundreds, or even thousands, of people in a select country for the player. It can destroy 1 or 2 cure research facilities in said country, and often puts the country in the state "General Disruption." In very rare cases, two disasters in one country within a few years of each other can put the country in "Widespread Disorder" without the plague even being introduced to the country.
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Flood[]
Flooding is a natural disaster. It may kill hundreds, or even thousands, of people for the player. It reduces funding and capacity of the cure in said country. In the game, Flood events are programmed to appear in countries whose climate is not considered arid, in addition to making that country more vulnerable to an outbreak.[1]
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Tornadoes[]
Tornadoes are a natural disaster. It may kill hundreds, or even thousands, of people for the player. It reduces funding and capacity of the cure in said country.
Tsunami[]
From time to time in the game will appear tsunamis, which can cause the death of a group of people either healthy or infected in a country with a coastline, the number of deaths that can cause this disaster can be a minimum of 3340 to 7339 people.[2] These events are programmed so that they can only occur in countries that have a port, in addition to these must be considered poor in the game.[2]
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Storms[]
Storms are a natural disaster. They may kill hundreds, or even thousands, of people for the player, although generally they only kill hundreds.
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Trivia[]
- Because the world population never increases due to no events causing birth, it could be that if one waits an indefinitely long time, the world population would reach 0, if the chance of natural disasters happening never reaches 0.
- In rarer cases, a tsunami can hit a landlocked country.
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- ↑ Standard Game and Scenario Event Code (See Game File: standard__normal.txt) (Note: The event is called "cure_nat_cat_flood" and the variable that determines the infectivity's increase in the country due to the floods is "govLocalInfectiousness")
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Standard Game and Scenario Event Code (See Game File: standard__normal.txt) (Note: The event is called "nat_cat_tsunami" and the variable that determines the number of deaths due to the tsunami is randomized, which is <Effect Field="deadPopulationOverride" Op="PLUS"><Random Min="3340" Max="7339" /> </Effect>)