Natural Hazards - Typhoon Haiyan 2013 Flashcards
What was the date?
2-11 November 2013
What were the highest winds?
315 km/h
What was the damage?
$4.5 billion
What areas were affected?
Caroline Islands, Philippines, South China and Vietnam
What were some immediate responses?
- 800,000 evacuated partly to a football stadium in Tacloban
- military calmed looting
How many people died?
6000
How many people went missing?
1000
How many homes were destroyed?
130,000
How many people were affected?
11 million
What did the UK do to help?
- provided shelter, medicine and water for 800,000 people
- donated $80 million
How much the UN donate?
$300 million
What did Russia do to help?
sent a team of 200 people + aircraft
How much did coconut, rice and sugarcane make up of the Philippines economy?
13%
What percentage of the city of Tacloban was destroyed?
90%
What was the damage the rice business?
$53 million
What percentage of farmers and fishers lost their income?
75%
What was the recovery costs for agriculture and fishing?
$725 million
What was a secondary effect?
An oil barge ran aground creating a 800,000 litre leak contaminating 10 hectares of mangroves and preventing fishing in Estancia
How many people died in a stampede for looting rice?
8 due to a 12% increase in rice prices
How many food packs and litres of water were distributed within two weeks?
1 million food packs and 250,000 litres of water
What are the government hoping to do in a long term response?
- a no build zone along the coast in Eastern Visayas
- a new storm surge warning system
- mangroves replanted
- plans to build the Tacloban-Palo-Tanuan- Road Dike
