Temporal ripple
By some accounts, temporal ripples, also called time ripples and temporal wakes, were common movements of time which frequently shifted history. (PROSE: An Age of Marvels [+]Loading...["An Age of Marvels (feature)"], Designing Eighth Doctor Adventures [+]Loading...["Designing Eighth Doctor Adventures (feature)"], Playing in the Ninth Doctor's Era [+]Loading...{"page":"26","1":"Playing in the Ninth Doctor's Era (feature)"}) The lives of certain groups of adventurers often occurred in the parts of time affected by these ripples, with discontinuity between the adventurers's lives and other accounts of the Doctor's universe being the result of ripples. (PROSE: An Age of Marvels [+]Loading...["An Age of Marvels (feature)"])
The Last Great Time War sent out many time ripples which altered parts of history such as the era in which Zoe Heriot originated. (PROSE: The Second Doctor and Companions [+]Loading...["The Second Doctor and Companions (feature)"])
According to the Thirteenth Doctor, events such as the Flux created ripples through time which meant that they would be "foreseen somewhere, by some smart people". (TV: Survivors of the Flux [+]Loading...["Survivors of the Flux (TV story)"])
A time disruption causing ripples in the Cyber-Wars prompted the Holo-Doctor to take control of an abandoned TARDIS and pick up Yasmin Khan. The duo recruited adventurers to stop whatever force was causing these ripples. (GAME: "She is Loved" [+]Part of The Power of the Doctor, Loading...{"namedpart":"She is Loved","1":"The Power of the Doctor (game)"})
A likely reason the Ninth Doctor chose to spend much of his time on Earth following the Last Great Time War was that he was checking for time ripples, to ensure Earth's history wasn't diverted from what it was supposed to be. Playing in the Ninth Doctor's Era [+]Loading...{"page":"26","1":"Playing in the Ninth Doctor's Era (feature)"})
