The Philippines
Just a mindmap for one of the compulsory case studies for World at risk
- Created by: Bethany Cunningham
- Created on: 29-12-12 18:57
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- The Philippines
- Typhoons
- Typhoon Bopha (2012)
- Destroyed 90% of three coastal towns in Davao Oriental province
- 400,000 displaced
- More than 500 people died
- Typhoon Saola (2012)
- Dropped over 1.5 feet of rain over the Philippines
- Typhoon Bopha (2012)
- Tsunamis
- Indian Ocean Tsunami
- Epicenter was off the coast of Indonesia
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- Indian Ocean Tsunami
- Landslides
- Guinsaugon landslide (2006)
- It covered 3km squared and killed around 1800 people.
- HUMAN factors
- Deforestation that once protected the soil
- Reduction of shallow rooted trees (such as coconuts) which prevented silitation.
- PHYSICAL factors
- 2000mm of unseasonable(February-dry season) torrential rain
- 2.6 magnitude earthquake had hit
- La Nina
- Guinsaugon landslide (2006)
- Questions
- Explain how physical factors have lead to a range of hazard risk in the Philippines (15) June 2012
- Explain why volcanic hazards are common in the Philippines but not on the Californian coast (5)June 2011
- Explain how physical and human factors have made the Philippines a disaster hotspot (5) June 2010
- Explain how tropical cyclones contribute to the risk of living in the Philippines; a disaster hotspot (4) January 2010
- Volcanoes
- Mount Mayon (2011)
- $47 million in damage
- Mount Pinatubo (1991)
- It began showing signs of eruption in June 1990 with a 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
- A 10km extrusion zone was set up but this was extended to 30km
- 350 people died
- Injury toll was only 4300
- 80,000 hectares of farmland was buried with ash disrupting the livelihoods of 500,000 farmers
- Second eruption caused the side of the volcano to collapse creating a pyroclastic blast and huge lahars
- Two week before the blast, the government produced a video showing the risks of pyroclastic flows and lahars
- Economic loss was $710 billion-mainly agricultural and property
- Mount Mayon (2011)
- Earthquakes
- 100% of the Philippines are at risk
- Lies on a destructive plate boundary: oceanic (Pacific) and continental (Philippines)
- Typhoons
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