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Counterfactuals: The Great Lisbon Earthquake

Counterfactuals: The Great Lisbon Earthquake

Update: 2025-05-20
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Today we discuss one of the most powerful earthquakes to strike Europe in recorded history, an earthquake which knocked down Lisbon in a single, violent day in 1755. The aftershocks would be felt throughout history, however, as a shocked Europe came to terms with the power of nature. What might have happened if it went a little differently?
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Counterfactuals: The Great Lisbon Earthquake

Counterfactuals: The Great Lisbon Earthquake

Lance and Josh Geiger