This is a dangerous mode of operation in today's world, where terrorism and large-scale disasters could be rampant.

In a national emergency or large-scale disaster, the agency is authorized to take command of prefectural police forces.

Nuclear plants could, under improbable but not impossible circumstances, cause large-scale environmental disaster.

There should be a unified system which gives directions in such large-scale disasters.

A catastrophe is an extremely large-scale disaster, a horrible event.

In addition, local authorities do not have sufficient resources to respond to a large-scale disaster.

One important lesson was that a large-scale disaster can overwhelm one county's resources.

"If they think their earthquake is going to help prevent a large-scale disaster, then we have to convince them otherwise."

These events had serious consequences, affected people's lives and caused large-scale ecological disasters.

Secondly, the rules for drawing on the funds give preference to large-scale disasters.