I'll take tornadoes over earthquakes any day. Even 311 of them collectively produce a fraction of the death and destruction of an earthquake. Tornadoes are a terrible force force but they are focused. If a tornado misses you by a quarter mile you are pretty safe and as bad as the path it travels gets mauled a few hundred meters away life goes on as usual.

In the majority of cases emergency services, hospitals, power, gas, water systems are still relatively intact.

In an earthquake or hurricane the zone of devastation can stretch for scores, even hundreds, of kilometers. Disabling or destroying most infrastructure and disrupting emergency services. With a tornado there is likely to be a ready supply of trained people who are not conflicted by having family involved. In Haiti a big problem was half the responders were injured or killed and those who were intact frequently had family who were entirely dependent on them involved. Forcing the choice between saving strangers of saving their own families.