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Well, they are both natural disasters that can inflict severe harm on people. They can kill and spread mass panic. Some differences would be the fact that hurricanes are far more predictable than earthquakes and that hurricanes usually only affect the shoreline, unlike earthquakes which can happen anywhere.

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