I had already lived through one of the worst catastrophes a mother could endure.

Ireland lost almost half its population of eight million in what is regarded as 19th-century Europe's worst catastrophe.

Marriages - take it from us - survive worse catastrophes than they've experienced.

The resulting explosion killed 295 students and teachers making it the worst catastrophe to take place in an American school.

The worst social catastrophe she ever witnessed is reported in her book.

Two days later, with the bomber still in Barchabi hands, a far worse catastrophe.

It is one of the worst catastrophes in the world!

And that's why, to save the entire economy from an even worse catastrophe, we had to deploy taxpayer dollars.

"This is as bad a catastrophe as anyone could imagine," the Mayor said.

Of the eighty worst financial catastrophes during the last four decades, only five were in democracies.