Typhoon Haiyan
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- Typhoon Haiyan, The Philippines
- Facts
- Catagory 5 Typhoon
- November 7th 2013
- Winds of up to 315 km/h
- Was one of the stongest tropical storms ever recorded
- Primary Impacts
- 6,300 died
- 28,700 injured
- 6m high storm surge
- Flooding up to a mile inland
- Very high rainfall - nearly 300mm in 12 hours
- Airport damaged
- Secondary impacts
- $1.5 billion of damage
- It destroyed an oil rig, causing a large oil spill
- 11 million people afected
- Lots of looting
- Nearly 2 million people left homeless
- Local government in some areas collapsed
- Responses
- 5 days without aid
- $475 million of aid
- Only 20% of victims recieved aid
- US sent 13,000 service personell
- Risk
- Philippines in a very vulnerable area
- Poor housing location and construction
- High population density
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