(though it’s pretty likely that in HPMOR-verse, all volcano eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. are caused by Magic Gone Wrong)
I doubt it, since first off, many of them long predate humans, and second, something would have to be seriously wrong with our model of geology for plate tectonics to not sometimes result in volcanoes or earthquakes.
Sheerly for the sake of playing devil’s advocate (do we have an alternate term here?):
The “fact” that volcanoes and earthquakes occur because of magic doesn’t mean that our model is wrong. The tension that is building up for these natural disasters would still be there—the magic would just trigger it earlier that it would have otherwise.
I doubt it, since first off, many of them long predate humans, and second, something would have to be seriously wrong with our model of geology for plate tectonics to not sometimes result in volcanoes or earthquakes.
Sheerly for the sake of playing devil’s advocate (do we have an alternate term here?):
The “fact” that volcanoes and earthquakes occur because of magic doesn’t mean that our model is wrong. The tension that is building up for these natural disasters would still be there—the magic would just trigger it earlier that it would have otherwise.