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Typhoon Haiyan - Coggle Diagram
Typhoon Haiyan
Social impacts
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Outbreaks of disease due to lack of sanitation, food, water, shelter and medicine
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Tacloban city government was devastated with only 70 people coming into work instead of the 2,500
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Economic Impacts
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Major rice, corn and sugar producing areas were destroyed, this effected global supply and caused farmers incomes to drop
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Fishing communities were effected by the destruction of 30,000 fishing boats.
Responses
The damage could have been much worse, PAGASA (The Philippines meteorological agency) who broadcast warnings leading to the evacuation of 750,000 people.
The government declared a state of national calamity and asked for international aid after just one day
The UK government provided food, shelter, water and medicine to 800,000 people
The UN launched an international aid appeal in December 2013 for £480 million to fiance humanitarian aid in 2014
Environmental impacts
71,000 hectares of farmland was affected
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It was on of the strongest cyclone ever recorded with winds getting up to 313km/h and rainfall as high as 281.9mm.
It primarily hit the Philippines a fairly poor part of the world with minimal investment into prediction, planning and protection schemes.