The Phillipines case study
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- Created on: 20-04-15 11:42
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- The Phillipines
- Why
is the Philippines at risk from landslides?
- Heavy rain- typhoons
- Mountainous terrain
- Tectonic activity
- Logging
- Population pressures
- Volcanic risk
- It sits across a major plate boundary so it faces significant risk from volcanoes and earthquakes.
- Mount Pinatubo- 350 people died, some people died in camps, 80,000 hectares of farmland buried in ash, economic losses were $US710 million.
- 2 weeks before the blast they produced a video outlining the dangers of lahars and pyroclastic flow.
- When the first eruption took place 200,000 people had been evacuated.
- Effective management reduced the death and injury toll.
- 2006 Earthquake
- Killed 15 people, injured 100 people, damaged or destroyed 800 buildings, generated local tsunami, caused landslides.
- The Guinsaugon Landslide
- Village in central Philippines, in 2006 a mudslide completely engulfed the village, killing 1150 people.
- There was unseasonable torrential rain, La Nina cycle, 2.6 magnitude earthquake and deforestation.
- Why
is the Philippines at risk from landslides?
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