Sentence examples for largest disaster from inspiring English sources

It is also the largest disaster to hit South Korea since President Lee took office.

Mr. Cooley was involved in the largest disaster involving smoke-jumper deaths on the job.

Indeed, the nation's largest disaster relief agency, the American Red Cross, flatly rejected the concept.

The Red Cross, the nation's largest disaster relief organization, has been trying to distribute more than $530 million.

As far as I can tell, the largest disaster the agency faced was the 1994 Northridge earthquake in California, in which fifty people died, of which 22 were near-immediate fatalities from earthquake-induced heart attacks.

Dr. Bernadine Healy, president of the American Red Cross, the nation's largest disaster relief agency, said that she would never agree to share such information, citing the need to protect the privacy of those who had sought aid.

On May 13 the nation was shocked when the city of Enschede suffered one of the largest disasters in The Netherlands since World War II.

This comes just a few days after one of the Mediterranean's largest disasters, in which up to 950 migrants may have died following a boat's capsize.

Figure 6 Distribution of fatalities, detailing the largest disasters (highest-fatality incidents).

Note that the largest disasters caused fatalities far beyond 10 km from the volcano.

The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami was one of the largest disasters in recorded history.