The phrase "terrible catastrophe" is correct and can be used in written English.
Example sentence: The terrible catastrophe left a path of destruction across town.
"This is a terrible catastrophe that hit New York.
And it would be a terrible catastrophe for that to happen.
All has been prepared to welcome them here, to the place of this terrible catastrophe".
An apatosaurus called Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) endures a terrible catastrophe and against the odds makes a human friend.
You travel in those empty places and feel like the first human ever to set foot there, or the first visitor after some terrible catastrophe.
But a terrible catastrophe occurs midway through one of their painfully well-meant attempts at neighbourliness, and the new downstairs couple become their undeclared enemies, waging a new war of psychological parasitism.
Terrible catastrophes inevitably encourage appeals to God.
A regime can withstand terrible catastrophes, and even ignore them, provided its legitimacy is not based on preventing them.
Little do you know, metres below your feet terrible catastrophes are unfolding.
But that would also involve terrible catastrophes everywhere for people, plants and animals alike.
It was a sort of emotional catastrophe, decades of terrible tragedy.
