The phrase "avoid further disaster" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the need to prevent additional negative outcomes or crises in a situation.
Example: "To ensure the safety of our community, we must take immediate action to avoid further disaster."
Alternatives: "prevent additional calamity" or "avert more misfortune."
The United States would have to change course if it was to avoid further disaster.
In a letter to the Guardian, Piketty and other leading economists said: "Together we urge Chancellor Merkel and the Troika to consider a course correction, to avoid further disaster and enable Greece to remain in the eurozone.
Investors took some heart from comments from Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, who called for more action from EU governments to avoid further disaster, while in the UK, Thursday's news of a deeper than expected recession prompted renewed calls for further quantitative easing.
(AP) BEIJING -- China's worst known oil spill is dozens of times larger than the government has reported - bigger than the famous Exxon Valdez spill two decades ago - and some of the oil was dumped deliberately to avoid further disaster, an American expert said Friday.
When will the F.B.I. realize that comprehensive and timely coordination among intelligence, police, public health and safety groups is critical to avoid further disasters?
No matter, because in either case divorcing boomers will need some help if they hope to avoid further disasters.
As Detroit's plight suggests, sometimes in negotiation, a win-win deal is one that avoids further disaster rather than one that leaves all parties in a celebratory mood.
As business and political leaders try to figure out how to avoid further economic disaster and stem the tide of the ever-increasing social vitriol we hear from cultural movements from the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, they are overlooking a primary driver behind many of our current calamities.
The UNISDR report also says economic losses from disasters have spun out of control, and called on the business community to incorporate disaster risk management into their investment strategies to avoid further losses.
The arrangement reflects a bipartisan desire to avoid further delays in the two programs, which will provide critical data to weather forecasters, disaster planners, and climate scientists, Lubchenco says.
Clive leaves to avoid further trouble.
