thing vs natural event

thing and natural event both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
thing	Yes	No	No	No
natural event	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, natural event is a hypernym of thing; that is, natural event is a word with a broader meaning than thing:

Other hypernyms of thing include happening, occurrence, occurrent.

thing (noun)	natural event (noun)
a separate and self-contained entity	an event that happens
an action
an artifact
an entity that is not named specifically
any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
a special abstraction
a special objective
a vaguely specified concern
a statement regarded as an object
an event
a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
a special situation