Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis—A Memoir and Expert Analysis of Our World's Growing Vulnerability to Natural Disasters

by Samantha Montano

Catastrophe is the term disaster researchers use to describe the worst of the worst.32 You know them when you see them. (Think: the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and Hurricane Maria in 2017.)