The phrase "a disaster of major" is not correct in English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and does not convey a clear meaning.
Example: "The storm was a disaster of major proportions, causing widespread damage."
Alternatives: "a major disaster" or "a significant disaster."
'A disaster of major proportions with far-reaching consequences,' said the Dutch defence minister, Joris Voorhoeve.
He told ABC television: "I'm quite sure we're going to face a disaster of major proportion".
Prime minister Laurent Lamothe described it as a "disaster of major proportions".
Still, during this intervening month scientists in Europe and America reported that their models suggested that Japan faced a disaster of major proportions, while the Governor of Tokyo announced that radioactive iodine levels in the tap water of that city about 150 miles south of the disaster was more than twice the level considered safe for infants.
The Scorpion followed its Farnborough appearance with a demonstration at an exercise in Textron's home state of Kansas, designed to simulate the aftermath of a natural disaster (a major tornado strike) on the region.
In the past decade, any preacher can – out of the top of his head – reel off a series of major disasters, such as the tsunami in Asia, the Katrina floods in the US, and the earthquake in China, as disturbing warnings to humanity.
Although China was ravaged by a series of major disasters in this phase such as the Great Famine (1959 1961), the Great Tangshan Earthquake in 1976, and the floods in August 1975 disaster management was not taken seriously at the institutional level because the ideology "putting politics in command" remained predominant.
Although his administration was marked by a relative absence of major military or political conflicts, Titus faced a number of major disasters during his brief reign.
Over the past decade, China has witnessed a series of major disasters.
More than 30percentt of the respondents have answered that all of the eight kinds of disasters (flood, landslide, earthquake, fire, storm, hail, drought, and extreme rainfall) may occur sometime in their areas, which in fact is not a correct understanding of major disaster issues of his/her area.
The dominance of a small number of major disasters on historical fatalities is illustrated further in Figure 9.
