Case Study: Multi-hazardous Environment Flashcards
What is the case study for a multi-hazardous environment?
The Philippines
Where is the Phillipenes located?
South-East Asia.
How is the Philippines affected by volcanoes?
What is the plate margins?
Located on a destructive plate boundary Eg: Mount Pinatubo eruption.
Philippine plate is being subducted under the Eurasian plate.
What were the impacts of the Mt Pinatubo eruption?
Social:
-700 died
Environmental:
-Agricultural land damaged
Economic:
-$700 million damage
How is the Philippines affected by seismic hazards?
Earthquakes occur along destructive plate boundary and can cause tsunamis.
1997: Earthquake in the Philippines (8.0MMS) hit Luson island and caused a tsunami to hit the Moro gulf.
How is the Philippines affected by tropical storms?
10 every year.
Develop in pacific and move west.
Give an example of a tropical storm in the Philippines.
Typhoon Xangsane
How did typhoon Xangsane affect the Philippines?
Swept across Manila destroying homes and causing flooding.
-200 died
Total Cost: $130 million.
When did Mt Pinatubo erupt?
1991
What were the impacts of seismic hazards in the Philippines?
Social:
-Thousands killed
Economic:
-Millions of damage
-Harvardian college destroyed
How did individuals attempt to prepare for hazards before 2009?
Understood the risks due to experience so they stockpiled food and widened rivers to prevent floods.
What did the Philippines government do to change their policy and when?
2009
Attempt to increase large-scale resilience.
How did the new policy help prevent disaster?
Exclusion zones that limited development in high risk areas.
How did the new policy prepare the Philippines for hazards?
-Embankments built to prevent flooding damage.
-Public awareness and education.
How did the new policy adapt against hazards in the Philippines?
-New building controls so buildings are able to withstand earthquakes.
-New monitoring and early warning systems.
