hazards Case Study ( typhoon haiyan) Flashcards
1
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what category
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5
2
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radius of typhoon
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53 miles
3
Q
rainfall
A
400mm
4
Q
storm surge area and height
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5 meters
tacloban city
5
Q
social primary impacts
A
6201 deaths
1.1 million houses lost
4 million people displaced
14 million people affected
28,000 casualties
6
Q
social secondary impacts
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- disease
- lack of food water shelter
- influx of refugees
- two months later still 21,000 -families in evacuation centres
- education disrupted
7
Q
economic primary impacts
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- £13 billion damage
- major sugar rice farms destroyed
- 50,000 to 120,000 tons of sugar lost one of the Philippines main sources of economic income
- 175,000 acres of farmland lost
8
Q
economic secondary impacts
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- tacloban city destroyed
- looting
- country is in a debt cycle due to government repaying loans from other countries
9
Q
environmental primary impacts
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- floods
- loss of trees
- oil + sewage leaks into ecosystems
- lack of sanitation leading to higher pollution
- farms destroyed
- coconut farms lost which was half of the country’s exports
- fishing industry destroyed
10
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environmental secondary impacts
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- 90% of rural population in affected areas are farmers
- contaminated water with chemicals seawater and sewage
- no crop land for family’s to make an income
11
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political primary impacts
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- gov was under pressure to speed up aid
- accused of being under prepared so riots broke out
12
Q
political secondary impacts
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- increased gov spending and new policies to improve response
- £3 billion allocated for rehab and rebuilding
13
Q
immediate responses
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(trees blocked roads making it hard for aid to arrive and treat people)
- televised warning
- 800,000 people evacuated
- medical supplies
- £1.5billion in foreign aid
- 1200 evacuation centres built
- 1 million food packs sent out
14
Q
secondary responses
A
- no build zone set up
- cash for work program implementation for people to help clear debris
- oxfam replaced fishing boats
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