The phrase "a lesser disaster" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that is not as severe or damaging as another disaster, often in a comparative context.
Example: "While the hurricane caused significant damage, the flooding that followed was considered a lesser disaster in comparison."
Alternatives: "a minor catastrophe" or "a smaller calamity".
Once, faced with the lesser disaster of a restless old Labour audience, Blair rescued a sinking speech by ditching his text and improvising - which is what he probably should have done when the WI began to get stroppy.
But in my experience, the opposite is true: the reporting of cataclysms or lesser disasters is often wildly misleading.
Lesser disasters pass unnoticed in this terrible catalogue, which is relieved only by the common-sense daughter, Caroline who has made a solid and independent career for herself.
Handling a crisis deftly and appearing to be in all the right places at the right times are characteristics that Mr. Giuliani mastered long ago in far lesser disasters, like major fires and snowstorms.
The catastrophe was also famous because, despite weeks of prior warnings and lesser disasters, the city was refused evacuation by the governor because of critical elections taking place across the island during that month.
Every year, thousands of people worldwide are affected by mass trauma, including war and other forms of armed conflicts [ 1], and also to a lesser extent, natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes and Tsunamis [ 2].
Chechnya and, to a lesser extent, Iraq are disaster areas, and the suffering of innocent civilians in both places is profound.
Although epidemics do not commonly follow large-scale natural disasters, when large-scale epidemics do occur, they often occur during CEs of any magnitude, and to a lesser extent following natural disasters.
As with climate change, most creeping environmental changes have both natural and human contributors and they can drive both hazards (mainly) and vulnerabilities (to a lesser extent), which each influence disaster risk.
