More than that it meant constant anxiety for fear some catastrophe, large or small, might completely swamp the family budget.

Our records, much older, have no trace of a larger catastrophe, certainly none so close, for the Crab is only 4,500 light-years distant.

And by the way, those threats are not mostly from terrorists or from a large catastrophe.

Initially, news about the earthquake were confusing, and people talked about a much larger catastrophe.

But it's a signal of larger catastrophes that could occur.

The agreement appeared to have averted, at least temporarily, what has threatened to become the largest single catastrophe of the Bosnian war.

The accident at Chernobyl was the world's largest single catastrophe of the decade.

He acknowledged that this is a very selfish thing, especially since he included large human catastrophes as entertainment.

Government lies about largest non-violent catastrophe in nation's history.

He discovered that they had formed over a long period of time, and not the result of a single large catastrophe, as was previously believed.