The phrase "worst calamity" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a severe disaster or tragedy. Example: "The hurricane was labeled as the worst calamity to hit the small town in decades, causing widespread destruction and leaving many residents homeless."
But a year after the worst calamity arrived on its doorstep, and months after most of the refugees went home, Rozaje remains uneasy.
Short of war, Mexico has endured about the worst calamity that can befall a country's tourism industry over the last few weeks.
For many dancegoers, the ending of a career so bountiful seemed the worst calamity to have befallen the art form since the death of Diaghilev in 1929.
The worst calamity, however, was a drought that attacked the northern provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan in 1877 78 and caused hardship for perhaps as many as 13 million people.
When the rebbe took the reins of the movement, the Jewish people had just survived the worst calamity in their 3,000-year 3,000-year a propitious moment for thistorybe delivered from the sufferings of their exile.
"Syria can still be saved from the worst calamity.
Leave the hall!" A stampede ensued that ended in one of Russia's worst calamities in recent memory.
The Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan is a veteran of the world's worst calamities, but on television on Thursday afternoon, as he stood beside one of the piles of rubble that pockmark Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he broke down.
The song "African Child" came out a few years ago, and was pounced on by critics as one of the worst calamities to befall the continent since plague and famine.
Mr. Powell has been an outspoken critic of the Sudanese government, which he has accused of ethnic cleansing for having supported attacks against black Africans in the region, creating one of the world's worst calamities.
"Thousands of people thought the world was coming to an end," wrote Norman Maclean, the author of "Young Men and Fire," a story of one of the worst calamities in firefighting history.
