Hazard Hotspots: the Philippines
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 14-04-14 08:31
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- Hazard Hotspots: the Philippines
- Tectonic Hazards
- It lies between two tectonic plates, the Eurasian and Philippine plates, which make up a destructive plate boundary
- The more dense but thickier Eurasian plate is subducted beneath the less dense the Philippines plate
- 80% of the worlds volcanoes occur on a destructive plate boundary
- It lies between two tectonic plates, the Eurasian and Philippine plates, which make up a destructive plate boundary
- Fact file
- It consists of 7,000 islands and is 25% bigger than the UK
- Its population is 99 million as of February 2014
- the GDP was $5000 per capita (middle income country)
- Mount Pinotubo volcanic eruption in 1991
- It was the biggest seen in 50 years
- 200,000 people were evacuated
- Death and injury toll reached 43000 people
- 350 people died
- 80,000 hectares of farmland was destroyed
- Economic losses were $710 million
- What causes other hazard risks?
- Torrential rain
- Small earthquakes (below 3 on the Richter scale) causes landslides
- Deforestation means less percipitation is being absorbed so their is more run-off
- The replacement of native forests with shallow-rooted trees, such as coconut trees
- Tectonic Hazards
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