Geography - Typhoon Haiyan

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