Just having disasters destroy your city can be fun a couple of times, but being challenged and saving your city when it’s faced with a disaster is fun for a longer time. That’s why Natural Disasters has many systems that help you mitigate the damage, save citizens, repair damages and give you more time to react. For more time to react, you need the early warning systems. There are two kinds of systems: some with a range and others that handle the whole map area.A space radarThe very efficient ones that cover the whole map are the Space Radar and Weather Radar. The Space Radar scans the space, trying to find meteors that might land in the city area. When a city has a Space Radar, it not only has more time to prepare for a meteor strike, but also the radar gives you as estimate of where the meteor will land. The Weather Radar scouts the skies for extreme weather phenomenons and thunderstorms.An earthquake sensorOther systems are the Earthquake Sensors and Tsunami Buoys. The sensors are placed on ground and have a range around them. Within that range they detect tremors that predict earthquakes and sinkholes forming. The buoys are much the same but on water, as they alert when the water levels change drastically, telling of an approaching tsunami wave.All early warning systems both make the warning phase of a disaster longer, so there’s more time to react, and give an estimate of the area affected. This can help evacuate citizens from just certain areas, relocate service buildings, build more services to help with the coming disaster, and so forth. It’s your choice.An earthquake has hit the cityEarthquakes are fairly straightforward. The ground shivers and shakes, causing some building to collapse and the surface of the earth to crack. Buildings and roads on top of the cracks are destroyed. Depending on the severity of the earthquake the affected area can be anything from very small to a huge part of the city. If you have Earthquake Sensors in the area the earthquake is about to strike, you will be able to see where it will hit. If not, you only know one is coming, but not where.A sinkholeSinkholes are a bit more specific. They are large holes that appear on the ground when water has eaten away the ground beneath the surface. There’s a warning phase, when the ground begins to feels unstable, but the sinkhole dropping is an instant event. Anything on top of the dropping ground is destroyed. Sinkholes can be landscaped away, just left as they are, bridges can be built over them or you can even fill them with water to make the most of the situation. Who wouldn’t want a nice little pond in their neighbourhood?Cheers,Karoliina