How do cruise ships survive heavy storms?

Question

Or in general, how do they go through unexpected earthquakes or anything of the sort, since we rarely hear about cruise ships crashing?

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Answer 1

In addition to what everyone is saying, cruise ships are designed for passenger comfort.

All their heavy equipment is low in the boat on the low decks. This make them have lower center of gravity than say a container ship so they rock less.

Cruise ships also have gyro stabilizers that send out fins as the ship rocks to cancel out the rocking some.