They're two completely extraordinary phenomena which don't have much in like manner by any stretch of the imagination, so it's hard to portray the "distinction" between them (similar to depicting the contrast between an auto and a goat).

An earthquake is a development in the World's covering.

A typhoon is, essentially, a sea tempest. (A similar sort of tempest is known as a tropical storm in the event that it happens in the Atlantic or the eastern Pacific, and a hurricane on the off chance that it happens in the western Pacific.)