Philippines
- Created by: Julie Simpkin
- Created on: 09-05-13 07:56
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- Philippines
- Disaster hotspot
- Population - 91 million
- Denisty: 2000 per square kilometre in Manila
- GDP - £5,000
- HDI - 0.75
- Vulnerability increased by poverty, deforestation, poor land management and rapid urbanisation
- Typhoons
- 20 per year
- South-East Asia typhoon belt
- Typhoon Xangsane
- Volcanic eruptions
- Destructive plate boundary
- Philippine plate subducted beneath eurasion plate
- Mt Pinatubo - 1991
- Dangerous lahars
- Destructive plate boundary
- Earthquakes
- Plates become locked - pressure builds up - suddenly jerk
- Luzon Island (1990) - 7.8 magnitude
- Landslides - secondary hazard
- El Nino droughts
- Luzon Island (2005)
- Denisty: 2000 per square kilometre in Manila
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