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A tornado is an atmospheric event that gets its power from instability in the air

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending from the base of a thunderstorm to the ground. A tornado causes damage with powerful winds and debris carried by these winds. Most tornado deaths come from flying debris, collapsed buildings, and overturned trailers.

A volcano is a geologic feature formed by forces originating underground.

A volcano is crack, hole, or weakness in the earth crust though which magma (an underground mixture of molten rock and various gasses) can force its way up to the surface in what is called a volcanic eruption. Volcanic eruptions range from fountains and rivers of lava (molten rock on the surface) to massive explosions of hot ash, rock and gas with pyroclastic flows ("avalanches" of similar composition). A volcanic eruption can cause damage by burning buildings and trees with molten rock or hot gasses, flattening the with a massive airblast, and collapsing buildings under the weight of ash.

Many deaths in volcanic eruptions occur when people are burned by lava or hot gas, are suffocated by breathing ash and toxic gasses, or are buried by pyroclastic flows and mudflows.

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