What is the difference between a volcano an earthquake and a tsunami?

Answer 1

1. Hurricanes are a weather phenomenon while earthquakes are a geologic phenomenon.
2. Hurricanes are powered by warm, moist air while earthquakes are powered by tension in earth's crust
3. the main threat in a hurricane is flooding. In an earthquake the biggest danger is from falling objects and collapsing buildings.

Answer 2

Volcanoes (magma vents) and tsunamis (large waves) are only related by their tectonic origin. They are alike only in that they cause destruction and can be triggered by earthquakes, which may or may not be associated with either of them.

A volcano is a landform, often a mountain, created by the upwelling of liquid rock (magma) through cracks in the Earth's crust. Earthquakes can cause eruptions, or be caused by eruptions, when lava, steam and ash are released from underground.

An earthquake is a shaking movement of the ground, caused by the shifting of rock masses deep within the crust. Surface areas may be shaken, pushed in various directions, uplifted, or dropped.

A tsunami is a large wave, usually in the ocean, that is created by a movement in the ocean crust (moving the ocean floor) or in smaller bodies of water by landslides or ice slides. Crustal tsunamis are typically accompanied by an earthquake, both the quake and tsunami centered on the same area.

Answer 3

Tsunami by definition is "an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or underseavolcanic eruption." so in short its the after effects of a earthquake in the ocean.

Earthquake by definition is "a series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strainhas been slowly accumulating." In short, its what happens when the earths crust is irritated and rubs together and shakes our mantle(where life resides).

The rictor scale is how we base the severity and strength of said natural disasters.

Answer 4

A tornado is a violently rotating vortex of air the can develop during a thunderstorm. Most tornadoes are made visible by a funnel-shaped clouds. Tornadoes produces vary strong winds that can cause anywhere from minor damage to total devastation. The strongest tornadoes may produce wind gusts to more than 300 miles per hour.

An earthquake is a shaking of Earth's crust usually cause by the movement of rock along cracks called faults. Most earthquakes do not cause damage and are even too minor to be felt. Major earthquakes, however, can shake buildings to pieces.

There is no such thing as a "torndo." It is probably just a misspelling of tornado.

Answer 5

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