Philippines Hazard Hotspot
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- Created on: 07-03-13 14:59
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- Philippines
- Key Characteristics
- population: 92 million
- pop. density: 308 per sq km
- GDP per capita: $4,000 US
- LEDC
- Geophysical Hazards
- Volcanoes
- Mt. Pinatubo, 1991
- pop. evacuated
- ash runied agricultural land
- Mt. Pinatubo, 1991
- Earthquakes
- small ones occur daily
- Luzon Island, 1990
- 1500 dead
- 7.8 magnitude
- Landslides
- heavy rain - climate
- Leyte Island, 2006
- trigger: 10 days rain
- 100s killed
- buried village
- Earthquakes
- small ones occur daily
- Luzon Island, 1990
- 1500 dead
- 7.8 magnitude
- Volcanoes
- Location
- SE Asia
- Group of small islands
- on Philippine Plate
- On convergent boundary of Eurasian & Pacific Plates
- Vulnerability
- low capacity to cope
- many people in poverty
- densely populated
- low quality housing
- fast growing settlements in hazardous areas
- population pressures --> deforestation
- landslides
- low capacity to cope
- Vulnerability
- On convergent boundary of Eurasian & Pacific Plates
- Vulnerability
- low capacity to cope
- many people in poverty
- densely populated
- low quality housing
- fast growing settlements in hazardous areas
- population pressures --> deforestation
- landslides
- low capacity to cope
- Hydro-meteorological Hazards
- Typhoons
- abt. 10 a year
- develop in Pacific, move west to Philippines
- Typhoon Xangsane, 2006
- hit densely pop't Manila
- caused landsildes & flooding
- Tsunamis
- Moro Gulf, 1976
- caused by 7.9 earthquake
- 1000s killed
- Moro Gulf, 1976
- Typhoons
- Key Characteristics
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