n. ~ A sudden, unexpected event that causes sufficient loss or damage to disrupt routine operations of an individual or organization. Notes:  Disasters may be natural, including fire, flood, or infest [..]

1. A sudden, unplanned calamitous event causing great damage or loss. Any event that creates an inability on an organization's part to provide critical business functions for some predetermined p [..]

See Crisis.

1590s, from Middle French désastre (1560s), from Italian disastro "ill-starred," from dis-, here merely pejorative (see dis-) + astro "star, planet," from Latin astrum, from Greek [..]

Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organization (2.2.9), community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

terrible and damaging event.

The disaster is a variation of golf. It is basically a points game – points are awarded to the worst player or team. The winner or winning team in disaster is consequently the one which played worst and therefore gained the most points. Commonly in disaster there is for example one point for each, like for hitting a water ball, hitting in a bunker, [..]

catastrophe: a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies we [..]

It is a points game where the winner is the one who has collected the minimum points as points are given for bad shots.

a calamity; a great misfortune

An unexpected event that puts library or archival collections at risk of serious damage or destruction, the most catastrophic being fire, flood, and earthquake. Well-prepared libraries have a disaster [..]

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To dream of being in any disaster from public conveyance, you are in danger of losing property or of being maimed from some malarious disease. For a young woman to dream of a disaster in which she is a participant, foretells that she will mourn the loss of her lover by death or desertion. To dream of a disaster at sea, denotes unhappiness to sailor [..]

A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. Comment: Disasters are often described as a result of the combination of: the exposure to a hazard; th [..]

According to 15 USCS § 632 (k)(1) [Title 15. Commerce and Trade; Chapter 14A. Aid to Small Business], the term “disaster” means a sudden event which causes severe damage including, but not limited to, [..]

(n) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune(n) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune(n) an act that has disastrous consequences

calamitas

Calamities producing great damage, loss of Life, and distress. They include results of natural phenomena and man-made phenomena. Normal conditions of existence are disrupted and the level of impact ex [..]

April 25th -26th, 1986 nuclear Power accident that occurred at Chernobyl in the former USSR (Ukraine) located 80 miles north of Kiev.

Nuclear Power accident that occurred following the Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake of March 11, 2011 in the northern region of Japan.

Sudden calamitous events producing great material damage, loss, and distress. They are the result of natural phenomena such as Earthquakes, Floods, etc.

a serious disruption of the functioning of an institution causing widespread material and economic losses that exceed the ability of the affected institution to cope using its own resources

A disaster is said to have occurred when the normal community and organisational arrangements cannot cope with a hazard impact.

A disaster is said to have occurred when the normal community and organisational arrangements cannot cope with a hazard impact.

A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts that exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources and therefore requires urgent action. In the Handbook

An unexpected occurrence, manmade or natural, that causes loss of life, health, property or livelihood, inflicting widespread destruction and distress and having long-term, adverse effects on Agency o [..]

Serious disruption of the functioning of society, causing widespread human, material, or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected society to cope using its own resources (UNDP 91) [..]

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A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society causing widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected community or society t [..]