The phrase "a broad disaster" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a disaster that has wide-ranging effects or implications, often affecting many people or areas.
Example: "The hurricane caused a broad disaster, impacting thousands of homes and displacing entire communities."
Alternatives: "a widespread disaster" or "a major disaster".
But it was probably only a curtain-raiser for a broader disaster expected in the coming weeks and months as the country's political crisis deepens, according to economists, diplomats and aid workers here.
The 15 socioeconomic variables chosen to analyze the resilience of the earthquake-prone area that was exposed to seismic hazard were based not only on the RIM model but also on a broader disaster resilience literature.
After initially vowing to reject the food-stamp funding, President Trump has agreed to the emergency request to help Senate Republicans pass a broader disaster-relief package, which may be taken up for a vote this week.
With each crack in the great ice sheets of the Arctic and Antarctica, and each tick upwards of Earth's thermometer, we are moving closer to the brink of broad disaster.
But it may also be a broader economic disaster.
Indeed, some analysts suggest the central bank's new lending program represents a kind of back door to the easy-money policy pursued by the Federal Reserve after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, which is widely credited with averting a broader economic disaster.
AT ANY time in the past two years, you could have asked the authors of Britain's Strategic Defence Review what sort of crisis they were preparing to face more often, and the answer would have been the same: a slide into anarchy in some developing-world state, probably African and quite possibly on the coast, in which British lives were at risk and a broader humanitarian disaster loomed.
It has already killed all the river life in the local rivers and streams but now threatens a broad international environmental disaster if high concentrations of the sludge get downstream.
The donated light is delivered by a partner organisation that provides broader disaster relief.
Each program also offers a broad array of disaster-recovery features, including one that sends an error report to Microsoft via e-mail after a program crashes, presumably to help the company study what went wrong.
