Which is more destructive: a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, or a volcano?

Question

destructive as the damage it makes to earth

Answer 1

Hurricanes and flooding from are the Most Destructive According for the USA according to Harris Poll of U.S. May 16, 2006.

the rest of the top 5 according to the US Harris Poll Survey and USGS. This is for the world.

An earthquake and volcanism's is a shaking or trembling of the earth that is volcanic or tectonic in origin.

A typhoon is a tropical cyclone occurring in the region of the Philippines or the China sea .

A tsunami is great sea wave produced by submarine earth movement or volcanic eruption.

A tornado is a violent destructive whirling wind accompanied by a funnel-shaped cloud that progresses in a narrow path over the land.

However, the USGS rates Earthquakes as the highest in the USA if they combine aftereffects from them like Landslides, Volcanic anomalies, and Tsunami's together.

Answer 2

There is no question : HURRICANE when you talk about destruction.
Volcanoes and earthquake releases their energy in a short time. However it is a relatively small scale, let's talk about a radious of few tenth of km : the tsunami in south east Asia is one particular case. It happens quite rarely.
Tornado is very local and small although the winds are very strong
Hurricane is travelling thousands of km and leave a path of destruction at his back.
If you want to know, what are the most DEADLY, this is totally another subject : Hurricanes can be traced so population can be protected. But earthquakes are not predictable so far (despite many attempts). And few years ago, volcanoes were not predictable as well. So volcanoes and earthquakes are the most deadly.

Answer 3

team earth could win by potential of assessment. Earthquake (could comprise land slides, aftershocks, water an infection), Volcano (could reason Lightning storms, air an infection and acid rain), Tsunami (not purely is your place, boat and dogs destroyed, they are additionally out at sea). In harm dealt i think of team earth wins.

Answer 4

I would say a Earth Quake, i was in one and it was the worst, Hurricane i saw to many i am from Puerto Rico and we had bad one but not as bad as a EarthQuake

Answer 5

Volcano s in addittion to their own destructive powers often trigger Earthquakes and quirky weatern phenomen similar to tornados.

Peeace.......

Answer 6

earthquake will be the most destructive among these.
volcanic eruption signs will start three or four days before and we can plan our escape.hurricane and tornado are also dangerous but we'll get pror notice for those things and hence decreases its destructive effect.

Answer 7

i would say an earthquake, it could cause million even billions of dollars in damage. collapsing buildings, homes, destroying livestock, farms, cars, anything that isnt in the sky with no harness is going down

Answer 8

Earthquakes by far...the 1920 Toykyo quake killed 15,000.........one in Iran in the 70's 35,000, one in China in the 20's....sorry I dont have more exact dates but you can look it up......something astonishing like 100,000 dead

Answer 9

Depends on how you define destruction (is it loss of human infrastructure? human lives? damage to nature? etc...), and the magnitudes of each.

Answer 10

volcano is what i would say. it burns everything close, but a hurricane also does