It's known as the Mongol Catastrophe.

It just looks like an engineering catastrophe about to happen.

create a global catastrophe which is estimated to occur

man-made global catastrophe. Though the clock more recently

trip to the underworld might be a few minutes  long instead of a catastrophe that produces  

catastrophe.

catastrophe wiped out the dinosaurs

There's no catastrophe.

is that catastrophe is what defines tragedy.

The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.”

As a nation, we’ve undertaken desperate measures to avoid abandoning the continuation of our credit expansion – a delusionary course that leaves a final catastrophe of the currency as our most likely outcome.

- Reports are flooding in about a major catastrophe! - We're under attack from a supervillain

Now scram before this party turns into a kitty catastrophe."