Sometimes there is a human element, if not a direct causation, in the tragedy of natural disasters. Hurricane Katrina comes instantly to mind. Building large cities near a known volcano, as the Romans did in Pompeii. Certainly these kinds of events give rise to considerations of human pride and stupidity.
In the case of Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers wanted to build levees capable of protecting the city against a Category 5 storm, and worked up a plan to do so. But the environmentalists, allegedly concerned about protecting species, stopped the city from building any levees capable of handling anything above a Category 3.
Katrina was Category 5.