Typhoon Haiyan 🌪️ LOW

• Strength: category 5
• gusts up to 235mph
• wind speed of 195mph
• 71,000 hectares of farmland was affected - $85 million was lost from farming damage
• 6,300 dead in Philippines
• 19 million homeless
• tacloban suffered severe damage or destruction to 90% of infrastructure
• 20ft storm surge resulted in flooding and water pollution
• aid was delayed due to airport and port damages
• the total cost exceeded over $202 billion
• social 👤


  over 600,000 displaced from homes

  local people resulted to looting as food supplies ran out

  airports badly damaged (affect businessmen, tourists etc)

  children and parents were separated

  7,400 died

  449 schools were damaged or destroyed (affect children)
• economic ��


  airports badly damaged (expensive to repair, lose money from importing goods)

  many roads and infrastructure destroyed (449 schools, expensive to repair)
• environmental ��


  33 million coconut trees were damages or destroyed

  farmland was destroyed (71,000 hectares leading to food insecurity)
• Long and short term aid responses 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

  Britain sent RAF aircraft’s to carry water and food supplies

  Japan pledged $10 million to help

  21 UK medics were deployed to Tacloban (worst place)

  temporary hospitals and emergency shelters were set up

  US Navy sent ships

  3374 tents sent in the first 3 weeks after the disaster

  UK pledged to give $30 million

  UN estimated £190 million will be needed for a relief effort
• why was responses to typhoon Haiyan so difficult?❌

  Philippines are islands so it is difficult to reach

  roads (infrastructure) and airorts were damaged so many were reliant on helicopters for supplies

  LIC country so most the population live rurally so difficult to acces to provide support

  killed the coral reef and cut down mangroves so there was no protection against a storm surge