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Typhoon Haiyan Case Study 2013 - Coggle Diagram
Typhoon Haiyan Case Study 2013
Background information
Super typhoon with 314km/h winds
6 metre storm surge
travelled over 300 miles
21% below poverty line with a 0.61 HDI
Causes
70m deep
low pressure system
30C degree heat
Risk and vulnerability
High population density
A lot of people at the coast due to reliance on fishing
High amounts of poverty and building material
inadequate warning systems
Management
EU funded disaster risk education
Retrofitting schools with grills and concrete beams
A mangrove planting scheme to act as a buffer
A lot of locals ignored the no build zone
Impacts
7000 dead and 28,000 injured
6 million unemployed
Airports damaged and 30,000 fishing boats destroyed
1 million houses damaged
High amounts of flooding with contaminated water supplies
Disease
Damage to economy
800,000 litre oil spill
70,000 hectares of farmland damaged
$13 Billion in damages
Long term responses
Education schemes and better government planning
Mass vaccination programme for children
UN agencies helped people become less dependent on farming and fishing
Build back better programme to imporve housing quality
No build zones on the coast of Eastern Visayas
Short term responses
Use of military planes and helicopters to transport food to 1.2 million
Didn't reach key places and airports damaged so very limited
Mass evacuation and a curfew to avoid looting
Rebuilt homes with whatever rubble and material they could find
5 days after it had stuck many people still didn't have water or supplies
$800 million in international aid, but damage was more 8 billion