What is the difference between hurricanes, tornado's and earthquakes?

Answer 1

A tornado is a violent destructive whirling wind accompanied by a funnel-shaped cloud that progresses in a narrow path over the land ( not over the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean).

A cyclone is a storm or system of winds that rotates about a center of low atmospheric pressure, advances at a speed of 20 to 30 miles (about 30 to 50 kilometers) an hour, and often brings heavy rain. Not as large, strong or destructive as a tornado.

A hurricane is a tropical cyclone with winds of 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour or greater that occurs especially in the western Atlantic, that is usually accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning, and that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.

You didn't ask but a typhoon is a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea. That would be in the Pacific Ocean.

An earthquake is a shaking or trembling of the earth that is volcanic or tectonic in origin. The tectonic plates shift and cause this.

Answer 2

An earthquake is just a movement of the earth's crust. Hurricanes are the strongest storms known to man, and can stretch across many hundreds of miles, causing total destruction. Hurricanes occur in the Atlantic Ocean, Carribean Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. In the Pacific they are called Typhoons. A couple of examples of hurricanes are Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita which hit the east and west sides of Louisiana respectively, and occured about a month apart. Both of these storms literally wiped communities off the map. A tornado is a small localized "storm", but the can also be a mile wide. Keep in mind that you can also have tornadoes inside hurricanes.

Answer 3

Hurricanes and tornadoes are types of cyclones, or low pressure areas. Hurricanes are much larger and born over warm tropical waters while tornadoes are borne mainly from strong thunderstorms. Tornadoes are much smaller but typically more intense, and can be produced by hurricanes. Tsunamis are not weather related but are the result of undersea earthquakes, which generate these far reaching waves.

Answer 4

Hurricanes are huge storms that measure about 200 miles across at time, tornadoes are much tighter about 1/4 to over a mile and a half wide and are more localized, earthquakes occur underground and shake a building apart.
Hurricanes are measure with the Saffir-Simpson Scale
Tornadoes are measure with the Fujita Scale
Earthquakes are measure by the Ricter scale.

Answer 5

Hurricanes and Tornadoes are the same category, they are both weather phenomenon, that form in warm, damp air when winds blow into each other from opposite directions.

Tornadoes can strike anytime, but occur most frequently in spring and early summer. Hurricanes hit from June through November. Both are awesome forms of windpower that represent nature at its fiercest.

Both occurs above surface, and the main materials involved are water and air.



Earthquakes occurs in the earth's crest, where the layers of rocks and formations are the main components.
Earthquakes results from the movement of huge layers of formations or rocks, also earthquackes could result from volcanoes activities.

Earthquackes occures inside the earth and its media is rocks and formations.

Answer 6

Hurricane is called typhoon in the Philippines and Cyclone in West Indies accompanied by rain and strong wind that covers a larger are, while Tornado is a strong whirlwind sometimes called twister with a high pressure in it. It can even lift cars or houses. Earthquakes are movements of the earth crust either by Tectonic origin, movement of faults, volcanic eruption or by rising of magma.

Answer 7

A Hurricane is always in the Atlantic Ocean, Tornado is always in the Pacific and both are weather phenomenon`s, n Earthquake is a tectonic movement....

Answer 8

hurricanes are terrible storms that blow and wet up the place - tornado's are twisters that come down and do mighty damage, and earthquakes make giant splits in our earth! all totally scary!!

Answer 9

Hurricanes occur in the northern hemisphere, tornados in the south, although they are the same things ie big windy wet storms. earthquakes are completelt different and caused by tectonic plates slipping after huge amounts of pressure against each other ie big holes in the ground and building damage

Answer 10

Why do you use the apostrophe incorrectly in 'tornado's' but not in hurricanes and earthquakes? I'm intrigued by your logic (or lack of it).