Types Of Hurricanes

A cyclone is a low-pressure area. A cyclone’s center (often known in a mature tropical cyclone as the eye), is the area of lowest atmospheric pressure in the region.

Well, they are all basically the same thing, but are given different names depending on where they appear. Hurricanes are tropical storms that form over the North Atlantic Ocean and Northeast Pacific. Cyclones are formed over the South Pacific and Indian Ocean. Typhoons are formed over the Northwest Pacific Ocean.

Scientists often use “tropical cyclone” as a generic term, while “hurricane,” “typhoon,” and “cyclone” are regional terms.

Why do cyclones hurricanes and typhoons have in common​ They are literally the same thing. They do the exact same thing and they are all tropical storms. They cause rainfall and wind. Their names are decided based on where they form.

• Tropical Storm. Winds 39-73 mph.
• Category 1 Hurricane. winds 74-95 mph (64-82 kt) No real damage to buildings.
• Category 2 Hurricane. winds 96-110 mph (83-95 kt)
• Category 3 Hurricane. winds 111-130 mph (96-113 kt)
• Category 4 Hurricane. winds 131-155 mph (114-135 kt)
• Category 5 Hurricane. winds 156 mph and up (135+ kt)

The main difference between Typhoon and Tsunami is that the Typhoon is a type of tropical cyclone and Tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water. A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere.

A tsunami is large set of waves triggered by some sort of vertical movement of rocks under water (earthquake, large landslide, volcanic explosion). Both of them can be very severe when it comes to impacting humans, but overall hurricanes have probably caused more damage and deaths.

Pacific wide tsunamis are a rare phenomenon, occurring every 10-12 years on average. Tsunamis do not have a season and do not occur regularly or frequently.

1.5 How often do tsunamis happen? According to the Global Historical Tsunami Database, tsunamis that cause damage or deaths near their source occur approximately twice per year. Tsunamis that cause damage or deaths on distant shores (more than 1,000 kilometers, 620 miles, away) occur about twice per decade.

Tsunamis can cause great loss of life and property damage in coastal areas. Very large tsunamis can cause damage to coastal regions thousands of miles away from the earthquake that caused them. Beaches, lagoons, bays, estuaries, tidal flats and river mouths are the most dangerous places to be.

Pacific Ocean

500 mph

Tsunami are waves caused by sudden movement of the ocean surface due to earthquakes, landslides on the sea floor, land slumping into the ocean, large volcanic eruptions or meteorite impact in the ocean.

Deep-ocean tsunami detection buoys are one of two types of instrument used by the Bureau of Meteorology (Bureau) to confirm the existence of tsunami waves generated by undersea earthquakes. These buoys observe and record changes in sea level out in the deep ocean.

Satellites give weather scientists a “big picture” overview of weather development, which is useful in storm tracking. Tornadoes, however, are trickier to predict since they are much faster-moving events; meteorologists use Doppler radar to measure moving objects such as hail or rain within developing supercell clouds.

Technologies such as seismographs, creepmeters, and laser beams are used to detect seismic events. A seismograph is an instrument designed to measure earthquake intensity and seismic vibrations during an earthquake.

Earthquakes are measured using instruments called seismometers, that detect the vibrations caused by seismic waves as they travel through the crust. Seismic waves can be both natural (from earthquakes) or caused by human activity (explosions). As the ground vibrates, a zig-zag line is recorded.

The Richter scale measures the largest wiggle (amplitude) on the recording, but other magnitude scales measure different parts of the earthquake. The USGS currently reports earthquake magnitudes using the Moment Magnitude scale, though many other magnitudes are calculated for research and comparison purposes.