In addition to concern about volcanic hazards from erupted ash, a second reason to study ash is that it results from high intensity eruptions and may shed light on the processes that lead to these cataclysmic events.
Wall Street wags begin to wonder if those losses will lead to something truly cataclysmic, while newspaper reporters take a certain undisguised glee in reporting on really smart people losing money.
In 2013 stand-offs over the budget and the debt ceiling caused a government shutdown and nearly led to a cataclysmic default.
Parties don't lose overnight, there is a gradual erosion of their base and electoral machine, which leads to sometimes cataclysmic defeat.
It was the revelation that News of the World reporters had hacked into her phone and erased messages while she was believed to be missing that led to the cataclysmic shakeup at the paper's owner, the News Corporation.
Thatcher was furious and the BBC was sent into a tailspin even worse than the crisis two years ago when Alastair Campbell led the sustained attack on the Today programme that led to the cataclysmic Hutton inquiry.
It is this ultra-austerianism that has led to the cataclysmic beggaring of Greece, bleeding the patient white and then – when seeing that he's dying – insisting that he bleed some more.
Shortly after the film opens, Vargas and his delectable new American bride, Susan Janet Leighh), kiss at the Mexican-American border, a passionate embrace that leads to a cataclysmic explosion and soon plunges the newlyweds into a phantasmagoria of sleaze, violence and very low camera angles.
Geologists do not expect the current eruptions to lead to anything similar to the cataclysmic eruption on May 18 , 1980 which killed 57 people and blew off the top 1,300 feet of the mountain.
Contained in one of his wife's clocks is a treasure map, and what it leads to could be cataclysmic.
