Disaster hotspot: Philippines
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- Created on: 10-04-15 21:44
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- Geophysical disasters
- Disaster hotspot: Philippines
- Hydro-meteorological
- Reasons for hydro-meteorological disasters
- Country lies on inter-tropical convergence zone
- It's northern and eastern coasts face the Pacific ocean
- Affected by La Nina events
- The Guinsaugon landslide, 2006
- Killed 1150 people
- Physical causes
- Unseasonable torrential rain; 2000 mm in 10 days
- La Nina - a cyclic ocean and wind current affecting SE Asia (probably the cause the rainfall)
- Human causes
- Deforestation of native forest cover protecting the soil
- In 50 years logging has reduced several million hectares of forest to about 600,000 today
- Deforestation of native forest cover protecting the soil
- Reasons for hydro-meteorological disasters
- Hydro-meteorological
- Mount Pinatubo, 1991
- Social effects
- 58,000 people evacuated
- 4300 deaths and injuries
- 80,000 hectares of farmland was buried underneath ash
- Disrupted the livelihoods of 500,000 farmers and their families
- Economic effects
- Economic loss: $710 million
- Social effects
- Reasons for geophysical disasters
- Tectonic plates
- Destructive plate boundary
- Dense philippine (oceanic) plate boundary subducts underneath the Eurasian (continental) plate bounadry partially melting the plate and creating magama
- Tectonic plates
- Earthquake event, 2006
- Killed 15 people
- Injured 100 people
- Damaged/ destroyed 800 buildings
- Generated a local tsunami 3 metres high
- Triggered landslides which breached the crater wall of Parker Volcano
- Fell into Maughan Lake creating a flood which washed away houses
- Disaster hotspot: Philippines
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