1 August 1891: Earth crust weakened

The Executive Committee of the Congress of Nations announces that vulcanologists of Bandai have uncovered a side effect of the Mlosh weather control technology that has been used to suppress earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The crust of the earth has become weakened, and unless measures are taken, within 10 years, there will be too many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions to stop.

Bandai is a volcanic complex of at least five stratocones, rising to a height of 1891 meters, on the island of Honshu in Japan. In the real world, 1888 saw its first eruption in a thousand years. The eruption lasted only a day but killed at least 461 people.

In the real world, no practical large-scale means weather control has been developed yet, although Wilhelm Reich did design orgone guns ("cloudbusters") to suck Deadly Orgone Radiation from the sky and rumour has it the government of Eitrea financed cloudbuster projects in the 1980s and 1990s.

Also in the real world (but just barely), conspiracy theorists hold that the US government is using technology developed by Nikola Tesla to control the weather.