Typhoon Haiyan

Question 1

Primary Effects - What is a Storm Surge, name a city that was affectedby Storm Haiyan?

Answer 1

Sotrm Surge -a wall of water - that is 25 feet high in some areas, including in the town of Taclobam

Question 2

Primary effect - How many people were affected in the Philippines?

Answer 2

Over 14 million people across 46 provinces

Question 3

Primary effect - How many people were affected in Tacolaban?

Answer 3

Home to more than 220,000 poeple suffered more loss of life than any other area of the Phillippines

Question 4

Primary effect - How many homes were destroyed and how many damaged?

Answer 4

550.000 house destroyed

580,000 houses severley damaged

Question 5

Primary effect - How many poeple were killed?

Answer 5

7400

Question 6

Primary effect -What other factors were affected by the Typhoon?.

Answer 6

Loss of forest,trees, widespread flooding

Question 7

Secondary effect- How many people were made homeless, displaced in the Philippines?

Answer 7

Homeless - 1.9 million

Displaced - 600,000

Question 8

Secondary Effect- How was the economy affected?

Answer 8

Estimated losses at $2.9 billion- mostly in agriculture

Question 9

Secondary Effect- Which crops were ruined

Answer 9

Sugar
Rice
Coconut - half of the Philippines agricultural export (World’s biggest producer of coconut oil)

Question 10

Secondary Effect- How many workers lost income?

Answer 10

5.9 million workers lost income source

Question 11

Secondary Effect- How did it effect the fishing communities?

Answer 11

Storm destroyed boats, equipment.

Question 12

Secondary Effect- Which other local systems that were affected?

Answer 12

Sewage leaking from damaged, overwhelmed systems
Oil leaks
Tacloban Airport terminal destroyed.

Question 13

Where are the Phillipines?

Answer 13

Group of islands in the South China Sea

Question 14

Name 4 Facts about the Philippines?

Answer 14

GDP $4700
27% of people in poverty
48.7% Literacy rates
Half the number of doctors per 1000 people as the UK

Question 15

What are the causes of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)

Answer 15

Seasonally warm Ocean water ( Temp Above 27 degeesC)
Enough Coriolis force to create rotating winds over ocean surface
Sea level rise -20cm since 1900
Storm surges

Question 16

Which city was worst affected by Typhoon Haiyan(Yolanda) and why?

Answer 16

Tocloban

It is at the end of a bay that funnelled water from the storm surge.

Question 17

When did Typhoon Hiayan become a tropical storm and when did it hit the Philippines?

Answer 17

4th Nov 2013 - Tropical storm

7th Nov 2013 hit Philippines.

Question 18

Management and Response

What were the management/Government immediate responses to the Typhoon?

Answer 18

Government was criticised for this slow reponse to this event.
Philippines fromally declared ‘A state of National Calamity’ and asked for international help.
Tacloban city government was decimated just 70 workers available compared to usual 2,500

Question 19

Management and Response

What were the porblems one week after?

Answer 19

Pressure to speed up the delivery food, water and medicine to desperate survivors
Get paralysed local governments functioning
Storm damaged infrastructur making things difficult

Question 20

Management and Response

What were the long term solutions by Charities to the Typhoon?

Answer 20

By Dec water tanks had been installed by charities like Oxfam
Red Cross - trying to provide settlements, fresh water and job opportunities to those still homeless after 6 months.

Question 21

What have the Philippines authorities done since the disaster?

Answer 21

Invested in DRR - disaster risk reduction
Invested in CCA - Climate Change Adaptation
spent $624m in 2011, 2%of national budget, 0.28%of GDP.
5% of local authority’s revenue is set aside for its Local Disaster Risk Reducation Management Fund.