The phrase "a disastrous event" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an occurrence that has caused significant negative consequences or damage.
Example: "The hurricane was a disastrous event that left the entire town in ruins."
Alternatives: "a catastrophic incident" or "a calamitous occurrence".
A Republican victory would be a disastrous event for the country and the planet.
But the hurricane, which he called "a disastrous event of biblical proportions," spurred a reassessment.
Meredith's heedless actions once again precipitate a disastrous event, but in the second instance this is more deus ex machina than the organic product of what's come before.
"If this comes to pass, it could be a disastrous event for the developing world, and that in turn will greatly hurt the developed economies as well.
He warned this could be a "disastrous event" for the world.
Bindeman believes that Yellowstone may be once again poised for a disastrous event, perhaps within the next 100,000 years.
We live in a small, media-connected world, where any disastrous event happening anywhere may affect us all, at least psychologically.
This usually follows the death of a major character or an otherwise disastrous event.
In the papers [8] and [9], a continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) model is proposed to characterize the network survivability performance in the presence of static disastrous failures and repairs, which is considered as a static disastrous event that destroys network.
Second, the associated impacts or collateral damages due to the disastrous event could play an even more significant role than the event itself in business' decisions to reopen.
Now, "absent some real shocker in the debates or some real disastrous event overseas," John Cassidy has a hard time seeing how Romney could win.
