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They are both natural disasters that threaten coastal areas with the main threat being water. But aside from that they are completely different.

A typhoon is a storm that is pretty much the same thing as a hurricane.

A tsunami is a large wave or series of waves usually produce by an undersea earthquake or landslide.

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