What is "natural event"

Usage examples of "natural event".

Meselson insisted that the anthrax accident at Sverdlovsk had been a natural event.

They are tremendously real, somewhat the way a violent physical pain or a surprising natural event, a storm or earthquake, seem to us charged with an entirely different sort of reality, presence, inexorability, from ordinary times and conditions.

It is very rare for there to be just one cause of a natural event, unlike scientific experiments which are specially set up to reveal unique explanations.

Could a rare but natural event, the impact of a sizable cometary fragment, trigger a nuclear war?

And once again that thought failed to reassure him: a plague killing an entire crew is a natural event, sometimes providential, according to certain theologians.

President, this appears to be something other than a natural event.

And, finally, some people were coming forward to say with some authority that the epidemic had definitely not been a natural event.

If the biblical tale were true and if the young animals were born as described, it would have had to be the result of a miracle and not of any natural event brought about by Jacob.

I had invested so much faith in the success of this ruse, which, after all, depended on a natural event that I did not fully understand.

Can't God as easily arrange a natural event to produce a desirable effect as He could upset the laws of nature?

However, he and the others were saved from my compulsive hunger for variety by a natural event.

Even now, with only a year or so of travel left before all were in orbit around Lusitania's star, they were so far apart that no conceivable natural event could possibly have affected them all at once.

First, that the disappearance was caused by some natural event that, at lightspeed, had simply not become visible yet to the watching astronomers.