Philippine Compulsory Case Study
- Created by: Hayley Petts
- Created on: 08-01-13 15:08
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- Philippines - Multiple Hazard Hotspot
- Vulnerability
- Ranked 11th in the Natural Disaster Index
- rapidly increasing young population - 240 people per kmsq
- could double in next 3 decades
- poor people live on coasts - tsunamis and typhoons
- 10-20 typhoons a year
- population 84.6 million
- 14.8% in extreme poverty
- living on less than $1 a day
- 14.8% in extreme poverty
- Unstable locations
- Aeta Tribe lived on Mt Pinatubo when erupted in 1991
- Capacity to Cope
- Natural Disaster Coordinating Council
- 1 doctor per 1700
- Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical + Astronomical Services
- Philippine Institute of Volcanonolgy + Seismology
- Poor land use planning and uncontrolled deforestation
- contributed to increase run off and soil erosion, flash floods, and slides
- mangrove swamps have declined which protect coast from storms, erosion, and flods
- 450,000 hectares - 120,000
- Hazards
- Typhoons
- Pacific ocean and move westwards
- Xangsane in Manlia 2006
- high winds + torrential rain destroyed homes, caused flooding and slides
- loss of power + water
- Volcanoes
- Destructive Plate Boundary
- Eurasian + Phiilippine
- Mt Pinatuo 1991
- 80.000 hectares of farm land destroyed
- 350 dead
- $710 losses
- Destructive Plate Boundary
- Landslides
- heavy rain in short amount of time
- steep slopes + unstable land
- Seismic activity
- Leyte Islands 2006
- 100+ dead
- village buried - including school
- Earthquakes
- Philippine + Eurasian plate become locked together
- Luzon Islands 1990
- 7.8 magnitude
- 1500 dead
- Typhoons
- Vulnerability
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