Tropical Flashcards
1
Q
Typhoon haiyan 2013
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2
Q
Primary impacts
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- 600000 heaters of land
- 6190 killed
- 4 million homeless
- government evacuated people to a football stadium which then flooded in tackalabain
3
Q
Secondary impacts
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- oil barge ran adrift at ecosia spilled 800000 litres - destroyed 10000 mangroves and stopped local fishermen fishing
4
Q
Responses
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- 1 week later the government sent 1 million food packs
- Us sent 1.5 billion in aid
-33 countries/NGOs sent aid e.g coca-cola - 800000 people evacuated
5
Q
Long term responses
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- replanted mangroves for future events
- storm surge warning
- build exclusion zone
