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"NO it isn't a hurricane is it has the most death toll and can cause more natural disasters such as tornadoes and storm surges."

I'm sorry, but that answer was lame! L.O.L!

Forces from the land generate a lot more energy than forces from the air and even the ocean.

Have you ever thought about why earthquakes are so powerful? Do you know how much more energy it takes for miles and miles of solid, dense material that is miles deep to move, shift all that once than for a powerful EF-4 or EF-5 tornado of a mile to 2 miles wide to form or a hurricane??

Megathrust earthquakes and supervolcanoes are THE MOST powerful destructive forces of nature!

Think about all that energy and how far their effects reach. A supervolcanic eruption can blow a large portion of a state to kingdom come and put the entire Earth under a cloud of ash-fortunately such cataclysms occur once every hundreds of thousands of years.

A magnitude 9 earthquake always generates a tsunami that reaches all the way across the ocean, slugging distant lands. The earthquake of that size can slightly stutter the Earth from its axis and leave the entire Earth oscillating for days! It is strong enough to be felt all over the world!

How dare one say a hurricane is more powerful than a big earthquake! L.O.L!

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