One chunk had punched through the lava dome of the Yellowstone supervolcano. While the explosion wasn't nearly as powerful as some of those in the past, it was going to play merry hob with the farms to the West for a few thousand miles. The earthquakes spawned in that had left a good chunk of California an island. Secondary earthquakes had spread throughout the US Pacific Coast.
A large meteor had come apart in midair and produced a fireball effect in the Mideast. Mecca had been caught in the firestorm, but a large chunk of transuranic material had slammed into the more Northern oil reservoir strata and caused earthquakes and flare ups along those regions.
Parts of Paris, on the other hand, had survived despite initial reports. Instead of forming a perfectly rounded crater, the meteor that had sheared off a section of Eiffel Tower had formed a more oval shape that was now slowly filling with water. So part of Paris was gone, and the rest got a lake.
Hong Kong was gone, and the tsunami was already racing towards distant shores.
Ranma Saotome was crawling upstairs at the Tendo home, too utterly exhausted for even his pigtail to manage being more than utterly limp.
Azusa Shiratori was in a very cute and very shocked position shackled to the wall of Mikado Sanzennin's apartment, where he was tormenting her with all sorts of very cute things and a cattle prod. Mainly because he'd gotten sick and tired of her interfering with his attempts to do what Ranma was doing, and by all that he held dear he was going to have SOME fun before the tsunami or meteor hit.
Some of the meteor chunks were relatively small. Those the size of baseballs or smaller on striking something caused relatively little damage. The chunk the size of a baseball that struck a fireworks factory in Stutgard being an exception to the rule.
Some of the large chunks did actually very little damage. A rock the size of a Japanese apartment that hit in the Gobi Desert did absolutely nothing that a little time and wind wouldn't fix.
A chunk the size of a golfball that landed in Liverpool had already raised a few eyebrows as it was being examined. It would take a bit longer to determine that this was in fact a transuranic element, which was to say that it was of an isle of stability that didn't involve half-life factors and was not a terrestrial element at all. There was quite a bit going on at the moment, so it was certainly excusable that this discovery took some time.
What was unknown at the moment was:
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