Which is worse a earthquake tsunami or a tornado?

Answer 1

Tsunamis are generally more deadly. Earthquake-resistant buildings can help alleviate the impact of an earthquake. You can hide underground when tornado occurs. However, you have to run for high ground during a tsunami, and that takes time.

The severity of a natural disaster really depends on how many people are affected. If a tsunami hits an island with only 20 inhabitants, it is less severe than an earthquake affecting Jakarta, with over millions of inhabitants.

Answer 2

It is difficult to assess, as there is variability among all of them and they present different threats. Earthquakes are likely the most dangerous among these, as they occur with no warning and can easily kill thousands.

Volcanic eruptions are probably next up. Although there can be a substantial amount of warning for an eruption, effects can be widespread and difficult to avoid, and there is a wide variety of threats, death tolls can reach the thousands even in moderate sized eruptions. Pyroclastic flows have a near 0% survival rate for those caught in them.

Tornadoes likely come next. Although death tolls in tornadoes are generally lower than in hurricanes, we must take into account that a tornado affects a much smaller area with more severe damage. Tornadoes can strike with very little warning. Although tornadoes with death tolls of several thousand are likely possible, only one known tornado has killed more than 1,000 people.

Hurricanes, despite coming in at the bottom of this list, are still very dangerous and have been known to kill thousands in a single event. produce a number of potentially deadly hazards, with the greatest danger coming from floods. Advisories may be issued days in advance, making them the easiest of these disasters to predict, though it is still difficult at times.