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In some ways they can be thought of that way, though that concept is not quite accurate.

While both a tornado and a hurricane involve low pressure and powerful, rotating winds a hurricane is several orders of magnitude larger than a tornado and is its own storm system.

In both a hurricane (through what is called the storm surge) and a tsunami seawater moves onto land. Like a tsunami a hurricane also involves large waves. However, a tsunami is far more violent and travels further inland than a storm surge or storm driven waves of the same height.

Overall a hurricane is more close related to a tornado as they are both weather events, though of very different sorts while a tsunami is produced by geologic forces.

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