typhoon haiyan

Question 1

primary effects - social

Answer 1

• 50% of homes destroyed
• 4.1 million made homeless
• 6190 people died

Question 2

Primary effects Economic

Answer 2

• 12 billion in damage
• damage to rice crops = 53 million usd
• UN said 75% of farmers and fishermen had lost their income.

Question 3

Primaly effects enviromental

Answer 3

• Oil barge lost 800,000 litres of oil into the sea
• 400mm of rain fall caused flooding
• 1.1 milllion tones of crops destroyed

Question 4

Secondary effects Social

Answer 4

-Infections and diseases spread due to contaminated ground water
- 8 deaths during a stampead during looting as survivors faught for rice supples.
- schools were destroyed effecting education
- power supplies to some neighbourhoods were cut of for months.

Question 5

Secondary effects - Economic

Answer 5

• Fishing indiustry massivly effected due to oil spill
• Airports and roads were badluy damages
• lots of looting
• rice prices rose 14%

Question 6

Secondary effects - enviromental

Answer 6

• Flooding caused landslides
• 10 hecters of mangrove trees were effected by the oil spill

Question 7

Immediate responces

Answer 7

• Gov warning for prep and evacuation
• 800,000 people evacuated to the stadium Tacloban = reinforced rooves but became flooded.
• med supplies sent out but in some regions med supplies were washed away.
• Emergency aid arrived 3 days later by plane, 250,000 litres of water and 1 million food packs
• The government imposed a curfew to stop or reduce looting
• Celebrity couples used their fame to raise awareness and donations all around the world = Beckhams

Question 8

Long term responses

Answer 8

• 33 countries and international orgs pledged help and awareness
• More than 1.5 billion was raised in foreign aid
• Cash for work program paid people to help rebuild the city.
• Oxfam replied fishing boats
• BUILD BACK BETTER program to help uplevel the protection of the buildings to stop this from happening again.
  -no build zones to protect people from flood risk
• mangroves = replanted
• Storm Serge warning implanted
• more cyclone shelters build.

Question 9

how can monotoring protection, planning and prediction help to reduce the effects of tropical storms

Answer 9

• monitoring - satellite tracking cloud patterns associated with storms
• allows to see where and when the tropical storm will hit.
• Protection - reinforcing buildings to make them more sturdy and better shelters. and quicker recovery from the event.
• Prediction - early warning supercomputers can predict up to 5 days in advance. Forecast cones to plot the predicted hurricane path. 70 % accurate.
• Planning- supply kits and necessities that are needed, vehicles are fueled and plans for what the family will do. - This could save lives with a quick response time.

Question 10

how are tropical storms formed 10

Answer 10

• 27 ocean temps
• air is then heated above the surface of the warm oceans
• warm air = low pressure
• strong winds form due to rising air brings up more air and moisture.
• RA spins around cerntral eye of the storm due to the coriolis effect
• rising air cools and condences into huge cumulonimbus clouds an torrential rainfall
• heat is given off as air cools powering the tropical storm
• cool air sinks and becomes more dense in the eye creating an area of calm.
  -tropical storm travels across the ocean with the prevailing wind
• on contact with land loosed its power and source of energy (heat and moisture)
• storms move north in the northen hemisphire and south in the southern one