Geography - Typhoon Haiyan
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Typhoon Haiyan location
Philippines
Date of Typhoon Haiyan
8th November 2013
Category of Typhoon Haiyan
Category 5
Features of Typhoon Haiyan
170 mph winds
15m waves
Primary effects of Typhoon Haiyan
220000 homeless
6300 killed
600000 displaced
90% or Tacloban destroyed
$724 million to recover the agriculture and fishing
Secondary effects of Typhoon Haiyan
14 million people effected
6 million lost income from farmers
Flooding caused landslides
Food and water shortages
Immediate response
1200 evacuation centres
800000 evacuated
Red Cross Emergancy aid
1 million food packs and 250000 litres of water distributed
Long term responses
‘Cash for work’ Scheme so people would have an income and houses would be rebuilt
Homes were now built away from the coast
Build back better allowed for new homes to be better and more resistant
No build zone by the coast
Storm surge warning system
Mangroves were replanted as they were a natural flood defence
