"supercatastrophe" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "super- + catastrophe",
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          "ref": "1922, United States National Transportation Safety Board, Congressional Record May 25-June 13, 1922: Volume 62, Superintendent of Government Documents, page 8543",
          "text": "Then came that supercatastrophe, that curse and blot upon civilization, the great World War.",
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          "ref": "1953, Popular Mechanics Magazine 1953-11: Volume 100 Issue 5, Hearst Magazines, Division of Hearst Communications Incorporated, page 136",
          "text": "It may be a vast waterfront fire, like the Staten Island ferry terminal blaze a few years ago that consumed acres of buildings; a supercatastrophe, like the Black Tom explosion; a blazing oil tanker drifting toward a pier laden with explosives; or perhaps a helicopter pilot has dunked in the river, a boat is adrift, or someone has fallen off a ferryboat.",
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          "ref": "1980, United States. Congress. House Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development, Earthquake Insurance Availability, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 727",
          "text": "Insurance underwriters very often take the same optimistic view as property owners and in many countries underestimate the long term annual cost for the rare supercatastrophes.",
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        "A very severe, widespread catastrophe."
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        "(rare) A very severe, widespread catastrophe."
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  "etymology_text": "super- + catastrophe",
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          "ref": "1922, United States National Transportation Safety Board, Congressional Record May 25-June 13, 1922: Volume 62, Superintendent of Government Documents, page 8543",
          "text": "Then came that supercatastrophe, that curse and blot upon civilization, the great World War.",
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