typhoon haiyan

Question 1

what date did typhoon hit phillipipines

Answer 1

7 november 2013

Question 2

what area of phillipines was hit first

Answer 2

tacloban

Question 3

tacloban pop density

Answer 3

1100 people per km 2

Question 4

phillipines pop density

Answer 4

360 people per km2

Question 5

how fast were the winds

Answer 5

150mph

Question 6

how high were storm surges

Answer 6

6m

Question 7

how much rain in 12 hours

Answer 7

300mm

Question 8

what did high rain cause

Answer 8

landslides = blocked roads

Question 9

how many fatalaties

Answer 9

6000

Question 10

how many missing

Answer 10

1000

Question 11

what percentage of building destroyed

Answer 11

90 percent

Question 12

how much area of farmland affected

Answer 12

71,000 ha

Question 13

environmental impacts

Answer 13

trees uprooted and coastline washed away

Question 14

what did the destruction of powersystems cause

Answer 14

large areas cut of from communication

Question 15

why did local governments collapse

Answer 15

many officials killed

Question 16

how much cost of damage

Answer 16

2.9 billion

Question 17

what did lack of medical facilities cause

Answer 17

disease outbreak

Question 18

where did people go

Answer 18

to evacuation centres

Question 19

how did schooling continue

Answer 19

tent schools set up

Question 20

why were tourist resorts rebuilt relatively quickly

Answer 20

to invite tourism and to rebuild economy

Question 21

how many tonnes of aid did uk send in

Answer 21

200,000

Question 22

what did the US do to help

Answer 22

sent 130,000 service men alongside the red cross

Question 23

how much foreign aid grants given to businesses

Answer 23

500 million

Question 24

what has been done to reduce impacts for next time

Answer 24

improved satelite and computer monitoring systems TO GIVE GREATER WARNING

Question 25

what was planted and why

Answer 25

mangrove plantation to rebuild ecosystems and prevent coast being wahsedaway

Question 26

what did government create

Answer 26

emergency plans and evacuation plans

Question 27

what sort of aid was sent

Answer 27

rice and water

Question 28

how far did flooding reach

Answer 28

1km inland

Question 29

how many made homeless

Answer 29

2 million

Question 30

what happened to tacloban airport

Answer 30

flooded and terminal destroyed

Question 31

why were theyre shortages of food

Answer 31

rice just harvested and rice stores were all destroyed

Question 32

where was biggest landslide

Answer 32

island of leyte

Question 33

what happned on north panay island

Answer 33

power barge grounded and began to leak oil

Question 34

what did the oil leek affect area

Answer 34

impacted fishing which was major source of employemnt

Question 35

what is phillipines average gdp per capita

Answer 35

2765

Question 36

what was destroyed along coast

Answer 36

mangrove

Question 37

how much do they earn in area hit

Answer 37

1 in 5 earn less than 2 pounds a day

Question 38

how many evacuated

Answer 38

1 million

Question 39

how are they reducing impact of storm surges

Answer 39

mangrove planattaion

Question 40

what have unicef done

Answer 40

increased resilience by improving health care schools and social services

Question 41

how did they create jobs

Answer 41

encouraged people to join build abck better scheme to help build disater safe housing

Question 42

who stepped in to prvent cholera spread

Answer 42

WHO

Question 43

how much did UN raise

Answer 43

788 million

Question 44

what was scheme called to encourage people to rebuild

Answer 44

cash for work

Question 45

who were gievn grants

Answer 45

fisherman to buy boats