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• n  an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
• n  a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
  lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system
• n  a sudden violent change in the earth's surface

• A Kansas cyclone is a conventional, straightforward sort of catastrophe which comes, blows, goes.

• calamity
• disaster
• tragedy
• cataclysm

News & Articles

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• Western Financial Group Catastrophe Claims Centre in Okotoks Open Canada Day Long Weekend
  Western Financial Group Catastrophe Claims Centre in Okotoks Open Canada Day Long Weekend
  June 27, 2013 - CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance
• AIR Worldwide Releases Global Pandemic Flu Model
  For Immediate Release: AIR Worldwide Releases Global Pandemic Flu Model BOSTON, June 27, 2013 - Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) announced today that it has released its Pandemic Flu ...
  June 27, 2013 - Thomson Reuters ONE via Yahoo! Finance
• National Catastrophe Insurance Fund -- A Major Driving Factor for Thai Economic Expansion
  BANGKOK, June 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mr. Payungsak Chartsutipol, Chairman of the board, National Catastrophe Insurance Fund, announced that over the past year of the fund's operation, it has had a significant ...
  June 24, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• David Miliband in 940 News
  ...as the official death toll jumped to more than 28,000, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband warned that "malign neglect" by the country's military rulers was creating a "humanitarian catastrophe of genuinely epic proportions."
• Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune
  The scale and scope of this plan is right, and the time for action is now,Obama said in the radio address. "If we don't move swiftly to put this plan in motion, our economic crisis could become a national catastrophe."