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"Disasters can happen to anyone," Agasen, the teen, told AFP as the game broke up.

From Barron's • Dec. 29, 2025

The collection of works called Disasters and Interventions transforms calmness into calamity.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

Juliette Kayyem is a national security expert, Harvard lecturer, CNN analyst, Atlantic contributor, and author of ‘The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters.’

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2024

Disasters, elections, wars and even the outcomes of sporting events can shake our perspective, and make us look for explanations.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024

But Kat-astrophe, Kat-aclysm, Kat-alogue of Disasters, my mean, mad sister, wasn’t going to leave me behind, not when so much was at stake.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd