phillipines

Question 1

Why is phillipines a multi-hazard environment

Answer 1

-lies 5-20 degrees above equator so high temperature needed for tropical storms
-on a destructive plate boundary as the Philippine plate is subducted under the Eurasian plate and pacific ring off fire
-high population density with 240 people per square km and with the very poor/unprepared exposed to coast for fishing

Question 2

Typhoon Haiyan effects

Answer 2

2013
primary
-6300 deaths
-6 million displaced
-6 million lost income
secondary
-5.8 billion cost
-disease outbreak
-economy destroyed

Question 3

Typhoon Haiyan response

Answer 3

short term
-750,000 evacuated
-1,200 evacuation camps set up
long term
-3 days after main airport reopened , good for aid
-power restored within a week

Question 4

Mount Pinatubo effects

Answer 4

1991
primary
-847 deaths
-1.2 million lost homes
secondary
-acid rain fell due 22 million tonnes of so4 erupted
-global cooling of 0.5 degrees for 1 year due to ash

Question 5

Mount Pinatubo response

Answer 5

short term
-200,000 relocated
long term
-houses built on stilts to avoid future burial by lahars

Question 6

Conclusion

Answer 6

They had little time to prepare post disaster
-haiyan had larger primary effects
-pinatubo larger secondary
-haiyan response was better potentially due to year