Typhoon Haiyan Flashcards
Primary Effects - What is a Storm Surge, name a city that was affectedby Storm Haiyan?
Sotrm Surge -a wall of water - that is 25 feet high in some areas, including in the town of Taclobam
Primary effect - How many people were affected in the Philippines?
Over 14 million people across 46 provinces
Primary effect - How many people were affected in Tacolaban?
Home to more than 220,000 poeple suffered more loss of life than any other area of the Phillippines
Primary effect - How many homes were destroyed and how many damaged?
550.000 house destroyed
580,000 houses severley damaged
Primary effect - How many poeple were killed?
7400
Primary effect -What other factors were affected by the Typhoon?.
Loss of forest,trees, widespread flooding
Secondary effect- How many people were made homeless, displaced in the Philippines?
Homeless - 1.9 million
Displaced - 600,000
Secondary Effect- How was the economy affected?
Estimated losses at $2.9 billion- mostly in agriculture
Secondary Effect- Which crops were ruined
Sugar
Rice
Coconut - half of the Philippines agricultural export (World’s biggest producer of coconut oil)
Secondary Effect- How many workers lost income?
5.9 million workers lost income source
Secondary Effect- How did it effect the fishing communities?
Storm destroyed boats, equipment.
Secondary Effect- Which other local systems that were affected?
Sewage leaking from damaged, overwhelmed systems
Oil leaks
Tacloban Airport terminal destroyed.
Where are the Phillipines?
Group of islands in the South China Sea
Name 4 Facts about the Philippines?
GDP $4700
27% of people in poverty
48.7% Literacy rates
Half the number of doctors per 1000 people as the UK
What are the causes of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
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
Which city was worst affected by Typhoon Haiyan(Yolanda) and why?
Tocloban
It is at the end of a bay that funnelled water from the storm surge.
When did Typhoon Hiayan become a tropical storm and when did it hit the Philippines?
4th Nov 2013 - Tropical storm
7th Nov 2013 hit Philippines.
Management and Response
What were the management/Government immediate responses to the Typhoon?
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
Management and Response
What were the porblems one week after?
Pressure to speed up the delivery food, water and medicine to desperate survivors
Get paralysed local governments functioning
Storm damaged infrastructur making things difficult
Management and Response
What were the long term solutions by Charities to the Typhoon?
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.
What have the Philippines authorities done since the disaster?
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.
