The Philippines- Multiple Hazard zone

• Background:

  Consists of 7107 islands

  114 million people in 2021

  LIC

  2021- GDP per capita- US$8893

  Landscape- Mostly mountainous, with coastal lowlands. Many people live and work on steeply sloping land
• One of the most disaster prone countries in the world
• 60% of its land area and 74% of its population are at risk from numerous natural disasters
• At risk from cyclones, Earthquakes and tsunamis
• Sits on a major convergent plate boundary:

  At risk from Earthquakes and Volcanoes
• Northern and eastern coasts face the Pacific Ocean- World's most tsunami-prone ocean
• Lies within South-East Asia's major typhoon belts.

  Most years it is affected by 15 typhoons but struck by 6 to 9

  These bring strong winds, heavy rainfall and increase the risk of flooding and landslides
• Tropical monsoon climate- subject to annual heavy rains
• 47 Volcanoes

  22 active

  30% of the population live within 30km of a volcano
• Vulnerability: Has rapid urbanisation and a high population density due to it rapidly developing.
• Vulnerability: Many of the country's poor live in coastal areas where sea surges flooding and tsunami are made worse by poorly constructed housing and infrastructure
• 2006 Earthquake:

  Killed 15 people

  Injured 100

  Damaged or destroyed 800 buildings
• 2006 Earthquake;

  Generated a tsunami that was 3 metres high

  Triggered landslides which breached the crater wall of a volcano and fell into a lake creating a flood that washed away houses
• Drains resources and stretches the ability of emergency services to respond
• 2013:

  Struck by 3 natural disasters in 3 months

  Earthquake in October- Killed 223 people

  Typhoon Haiyan in November- killed 6201 People

  Floods from a tropical depression in January- killed 64 people