Typhoon Haiyan

Question 1

Background info? (Date, category, wind speeds, development)

Answer 1

• 8th November 2015
• Category 5 on Saffir Simpson Scale with wind speeds of 318km/h
• Developed on 2nd November hundreds of km south east of Micronesia due to low pressure that move west and developed into tropical depression

Question 2

Vulnerability?

Answer 2

• Taclobna has a large population density of over 220,000
• poorly constructed houses on flat, coastal land

Question 3

Primary impacts? (Deaths, houses, injured, % destroyed, storm surge)

Answer 3

• 6021 people killed
• 1.1 million houses destroyed (all not made of concrete)
• 29,000 injured
• 90% of city destroyed
• 5.2m storm surge destroyed the terminal building at Tacloban airport

Question 4

Secondary impacts? (Farmers unemployed, crops and land damaged, poverty and homelessness, damage costs, disease)

Answer 4

• 10,000 farmers unemployed
• 1.1 million tonnes of crops destroyed
• 600,000 hectares of agricultural land flooded
• damage costs of around $13 billion
• 16 million Filipinos living in poverty and 4.1 homeless
• reduced disease due to education on safe water practices and mass burials

Question 5

Responses? (Evacuation, aid, Red Cross, build back safer, rebuilding, reforestation and zones)

Answer 5

• 1,200 evacuation centres established
• 800,000 Filipinos evacuated due to televised warnings from president
• 33 countries pledged $1.5 billion in aid
• Red Cross supplied 1.1 million with clean water
  Build back dagger campaign promotes safer construction practices for post disaster housing
• 30,000 homes rebuilt to better standards
• No build zone established in East Visayas
• Mangrove trees replanted