cataclysm

But experts caution that the latest quakes don’t provide any additional clarity on the potential timing of such a cataclysm.

Rangers' future is, in part, being determined by their past and their understandable fear of having another ownership cataclysm on their hands.

As tensions swell into contradictions, however, a cataclysm in the form of war or natural disaster can catalyze otherwise simmering conflicts — allowing challenges from rival powers, revolts by subordinate social orders, or both.

The whole area is threatening to explode into a cataclysm of violence, death and pain.

It was the titans' final chapter, however -- as the story told in the rocks above these fossils record a cataclysm known as the Late Triassic global mass extinction event.