Hurricane is one of the hazards that is accommodated by wind and sometimes rain. It is mostly destructive due to the strong winds and strong rains. It is also called typhoons in the western Pacific or cyclones in Australia and Indian Ocean. It forms over tropical oceans. It also has a low pressure. It moves counter-clockwise in northern hemisphere. 

Volcanoes are mountains or hills, that have a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth`s crust. The eruption might take through a day or it may last up to years. It is also one of the most disastrous natural calamities on earth. Mount Pinatubo was one of the most destructive calamity in the 20th century. It affected the great amount of area in the Southeast Asia.

There are differences between the two natural disasters. Here are the differences:

	Volcanic Eruption	Typhoons and Hurrican
Magnitude	No single feature to measure how big the volcano is.	There is the intensity to measure hyrricane on the saffir-simpson scale. This is to measure the wind speed and air pressure in the scale of 1-5.
Duration	It can last from less than a day to years.	It can last till days and up to years.
Spatial Distribution	Volcanoes can be found in continental settings or oceanic settings. This means that volcanoes can be found in either land or underwater.	Severe Cyclonic Storm: North Indian Ocean  Tropical Cyclone: South and Southwest Indian Ocean  Severe Tropical Cyclone: Southwest Pacific Ocean and Southeast Indian Ocean  The more familiar term, "hurricane", is used in the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Pacific Ocean
Predictability	Volcanic eruptions are very difficult to predict, however, it is said that the beginning of a volcanic eruption is easier to predict than to predict the end of a volcanic eruption.	Hurricanes are very erratic; prediction is difficult
Regularity and Frequency	Shown in the Volcanic Explosivity Index table, non-explosive to gentle explosions occur frequently, and daily, compared to very big volcanic eruptions with a plume height of >25 km, which happen about once every 10,000 years.	See the table below

Storm Frequency Tropical storms and Typhoons by month, for the period 1959–2011 (Northwest Pacific)
Month	Count	Average
Jan	25	0.5
Feb	12	0.2
Mar	23	0.4
Apr	34	0.6
May	63	1.2
Jun	90	1.7
Jul	205	3.9
Aug	296	5.6
Sep	262	4.9
Oct	210	4.0
Nov	133	2.5
Dec	66	1.2
Annual	1419	26.8

Explain the characteristics and spatial distribution of the following hazards using at least two specific examples. [10 marks]

             Hurricane is one of the hazards that is accommodated by wind and sometimes rain. It is mostly destructive due to the strong winds. It is also called typhoons in the western Pacific or cyclones in Australia and Indian Ocean. It forms over tropical oceans. It also has a low pressure. It moves counter-clockwise in northern hemisphere. The speed at which the wind travels is 120 km/h but it can also rich about to 350 km/h. The diameter of hurricanes could differ it can be as small as 100 km and as gigantic as 1500km.

             Hurricanes are hard to detect because they are erratic. The usage of flights into hurricane, satellite images, on-ground instruments packages, and computer models. The destruction could be lethal due to heavy rain falls and 120 km/h. In the eye of wall the amount of rain fall is 10m/day. On the other locations it rains up to 10 in./day.