Phillippines
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- Philippines
- Location
- Part of south east Asia
- south of China
- Capital city is Manila
- on the main island of Lezon
- consists of more than 7000 islands
- NIC
- Geophysical hazards
- Destructive plate boundary
- Philippine plate sub ducting underneath Eurasian plate
- forms deep Manilla trench
- Philippine plate sub ducting underneath Eurasian plate
- Mt Pinatubo june 1991
- Volcanic forcing on climate
- between 1992-3 the worlds average temperature decrease by 1C
- lack of management
- 800 people died
- roofs collapsing in earthquakes
- US army base happened to be near by
- monitored the eruption
- 200,000 people were evacuated
- 20 miles because from previous eruptions they could see this would be a big erruption
- Alert systems installed
- Evacuation camps set up for refugees
- Storage of food and medical supplies
- 800 people died
- US$710 million
- Volcanic forcing on climate
- Destructive plate boundary
- Background
- 91 million population and densely populated
- GDP US$5000
- mountainous county with crowded coastlines
- Landslides
- 2006
- Guinsaugon
- Mudslide engulfed the village
- 1150 people died
- causes
- torrential rain of 2000mm in ten days
- rain was due to la nina
- 2.6 magnitude earthquake triggered the landslide
- deforestation reduced the interception making ground saturated
- native forests replaces with shallow rooted coconut trees
- torrential rain of 2000mm in ten days
- Tropical storms
- due to the coriolis effect
- in the northern hemisphere deflected to the north
- Typhoon Haiyan
- formed in the pacific plate
- 8th November 2013
- warm air pushed up into the sky creating a large swirl action
- killed 6,000
- 600,000 made homeless
- 9/10 homes destroyed
- 600,000 made homeless
- Category five on the saffir-simpson scale
- winds up to 195mph
- economic costs of up to US$14 billion
- lack of clean water leading to outbreaks of cholera and typhoid
- looting
- due to the coriolis effect
- flooding during la nina years and flooding in el nino years
- Location
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