typhoon haiyan

• Location: Philippines
• Date


  8th Nov 2013
• Category 5
• Winds


  147 mph [most severe]
• Tracked through Philippines
• tracker through philippines In 24 hrs
• Killed approx 6,190
• Storm surge


  8m high in some places e.g tacloban
• The government of the Philippines stated the storm caused over 6,190 deaths
• Over 1,785 reported missing
• The city of Tacloban [220,000] suffered the most loss of life
• Hundreds of thousands were evacuated by authorities before it reached land
• 371,000 were evacuated before it made landfall
• Many lived in refuge centres that were destroyed
• There was severe damage to crops
• Harvest season was over for sugarcane, rice, coconut and many seed stocks were destroyed
• Food shortages affected 2.5 million people
• There was further loss of life due to diseases like cholera and dysentery, caused by decaying corpses and raw sewage spreading in flood water that contaminated drinking water
• Millions experienced electrical disruption, with the city of Bogo blacked out for weeks
• 5 million saw homes severely damaged or destroyed
• 90% of all structures were wiped out across a 500 mile radius from the eye of the typhoon
• 10,390 schools were destroyed, causing children to miss out on education despite attempts at temporary schooling
• New public buildings could not withstand the winds or storm surge, such as the Bogo town hall (april 2013) which was destroyed
• The main airport in Tacloban was severely damaged, with the terminal building destroyed by the 5.2m storm surge and the runways submerged and unusable
• bogo town hall

  •walls came down

  •roof blown off

  •windows broken

  sought refuge in stadium with rain forced roof to withstand wind but everyone died when the structure flooded
• impact on people

  • deaths/missing

  • evacutaion

  • crops

  • disease

  • electricity
• impacts on property

  • home damage / homeless

  • education

  • new buildings

  • airport damage
• extreme weather event : typhoon haiyan