typhoon haiyan
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About
Philippines
low lying archipelago
Hit by hurricanes every year so recover and then everything destroyed
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Hazard
300mm of rainfall in 12 hours
250kmph wind
5m storm surge
Category 5 on land and at sea
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Impacts
2 million homless
All infrastructure destroyed
$3 billion in losses
6200 deaths
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Place
Government collapsed
Emergency delcared
Lack of education
Low tax
Speed of development- rural to urban migration rapid- 65% of people on coast with 240 people per km this hindered land planning
No hurrican defences
1/3 in poverty
Low lying archipelago
Insufficient management
Looting and violence
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