Disasters

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• a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.

1. Natural disasters

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   • Natural disasters are events caused by natural phenomena, such as earthquakes, floods, tsunamis or landslides, which generate large human, environmental and/or material losses. According to the United Nations, 70% of natural disasters today are climate related, twice as many as two decades ago. https://www.activesustainability.com/environment/learnsustainability-natural-disasters/
   1. Flood, earthquake, tornado, typhoon, cyclone, tsunami, drought, famine, volcanic eruption, landslide, avalanche
2. Man-made disasters
   1. Oil spill, nuclear meltdown, terroristic attack
3. Synonyms

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   • Disaster, calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm refer to adverse happenings often occurring suddenly and unexpectedly. A disaster may be caused by carelessness, negligence, bad judgment, or the like, or by natural forces, as a hurricane or flood: a railroad disaster. Calamity suggests great affliction, either personal or general; the emphasis is on the grief or sorrow caused: the calamity of losing a child. Catastrophe refers especially to the tragic outcome of a personal or public situation; the emphasis is on the destruction or irreplaceable loss: the catastrophe of a defeat in battle. Cataclysm, physically an earth-shaking change, refers to a personal or public upheaval of unparalleled violence: a cataclysm that turned his life in a new direction.
4. Something that is annoying or a failure, but not very bad

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   • I made a series of disasters in the kitchen My birthday party was a complete disaster