Typhoon Haiyan
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- Typhoon Haiyan
- Immediate Response
- 1,069 emergency shelters set up in public buildings
- The Disaster Emergency Committee helped 3,316,500 people outside these centres by providing aud
- The Philippines Red Cross delivered basic food aid
- French, Belgian and Israeli set up field hospitals to help the injured
- UK government sent shelter kits each able to provide emergency shelter for a family
- Primary Impacts
- 314 km/h wind speeds
- At least 6340 killed
- 5m storm surge
- 90% of buildings in Tacloban and 30,000 fishing boats destroyed
- Habitats and crops destroyed
- Over 600,000 displaced and 40,000 homes destroyed
- Over 400mm of rainfall caused widespread floding
- Long term Response
- UN appeal raised $ 300m
- Typhoon warning systems have been improved
- Rebuilding of roads bridges and airport facilities
- Rice farming and fishing quickly reestablished. Coconut production - where trees take 5 years to bear fruit - will take longer
- More cyclone shelters built to accomodate people evacuated from coastal areas
- Secondary Impacts
- $14 bn in damages, flooding caused landslides and bloacked roads cutting off aid to remote areas
- Water supply contaminated by sanitation
- Spread of water borne disease
- 130,000 homes destroyed, leaving 4.2 milllion homeless
- Looting and violence broke out in Tacloban
- 14 mpeople affected, 15 m lost their main source of income
- Key Facts
- 8th November 2013
- Philippines
- Immediate Response
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