When or if a disaster could take place is anybody's guess, experts say.

My mother opened it, worried that some vague disaster might have taken place.

The disaster took place on the 10th anniversary of the plane crash.

By no means lost, everyone around the table knew, was a delicate way of saying that a disaster had taken place.

This has led scientists to believe that the population escaped before the disaster took place.

But enough details have got through to make clear that a human disaster is taking place.

Other medical disasters have taken the place of this one.

Her husband and child were sleeping in their home here close to where the disaster had taken place.

What a disaster, if any but my own species should take this ultimate weapon!

These disasters, let us not forget, took the lives of close on 2 000 people.