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Typhoon Haiyan (Causes (Typhoon reached wind speeds up to 313km/h. Some…

- - - - Sea-level affects the entire globe of it particularly impacts the Philippines. It is caused by global warming and has gone up by about 20cm since 1900. These sea level rises create larger storm surges. There are an average of 20 typhoons hitting the Philippines every year. This increase of frequency of typhoons has also been affected by global warming.
      - A town named Tacloban faced such a fierce storm surge because the geography its coast allowed the surge to funnel waves into such a concentrated area causing widespread desolation.
- - - - Over 14 million were affected. The worst affected area was Tacloban and was home to more than 220,000. Tacloban saw the most loss of life across the Philippines. In total, Approximately 7,400 people were killed, 550,000 peoples houses were completely destroyed and a further 580,000 were severely damaged. This left 6,000,000 displaced and 1,900,000 homeless. The fishing community was devastated with 30,000 boats and associated equipment destroyed. Major rice, corn and sugar-producing areas for the Philippines were left unusable by the storm surge meaning trouble for the Philippines' export business.
        
        90% of Tacloban was destroyed.
- - - - 800,000 people were evacuated following a televised warning by the president. Many people found refuge in a stadium in Tacloban. However, since the stadium was heavily flooded many died as a result.
- - - - The long term responses included the Philippine government ‘Build Back Better’ programme. For the reason that 90% of the city of Tacloban, as well as 50% of all homes in the country were destroyed, the BBB scheme was put into action. This meant that the buildings were not just rebuilt as they had been, but that they were rebuilt to be stronger and more resistant to future tropical storms.