Hazard hotspot- phillipines

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  • Created on: 09-05-16 21:11

Hazard hotspot- phillipines

Causes

  • high population density
  • poor and poverty striken
  • low capacity to cope
  • scattered islands make it difficult to deliver aid too
  • lack of funding and expertise in management
  • in a tropical tyhpoon belt and experiences around 20/year
  • at risk to volcanoes
  • 100% counrty at risk to earthquakes
  • 30% at risk to floods
  • liable to landslides
  • El nino can fetch drought especially to the poorer south
  • basic protection of cyclones along the 32000km coastline

Effects

  • luzon eathquake in 1990: 7.2 magnitude, $369 million cost, 2412 deaths, 126035 homeless, 321 missing
  • typoon hiyan 2013: catagory 5,  6340 deaths, 1061 missing, $2.26 billion in losses
  • 2006 leyte mudslide: occured after sveral day of heavy rain, occured in an area of heavy deforestation, most likely riggared by a minor earthquake, up to 1000 killed.

Overall summary

In general the vulnerability is high due to amount of poverty and the lack of defece. the increase in urbanisation and deforestation can add to equarthquake and typhoon vulnerability aswell as to secondary hazards such as landslides. hwever the phillipppines has a good realtionship with the USA and therefore receives alot of aid. aswell as this it alos has its own PHIVOLCS research institure to moniter the area.

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