Typhoon hayan

Question 1

How much was the total cost of the disaster?

Answer 1

12 billion US dollars

Question 2

How many deaths?

Answer 2

6,300+

Question 3

How many islands in the philopenas?

Answer 3

7,600

Question 4

What was the highest wave in the storm surge?

Answer 4

5-6 metres

Question 5

What was the most affected part?

Answer 5

Tacloban and it was completley destroyed

Question 6

Why was it hard to aid to Tacloban?

Answer 6

Because of destsoryed infastruture and airports in the area as it was wiped out

Question 7

What was the immediate resspomces to the event?

Answer 7

UN + NGOs send emergency aid

Question 8

How much money did the UN send?

Answer 8

30 million dollars - is alot but when you compair it to the total damage cost it isnt alot

Question 9

How much money did international aid send?

Answer 9

90 million dollars

Question 10

How many people were displaced because of the event?

Answer 10

4.1 million

Question 11

Whta did the UK give?

Answer 11

it gave food and temporary shelter eqiptment

Question 12

How did this show the philiopeans is resilent

Answer 12

Philopeanos havent just given up and accepted fate they have developed schemes liek the build back better scheme to raise awaerness to hazards

Question 13

What over areas besides Tacloban were badly hit?

Answer 13

Leyte
Samar

Question 14

After it hit the philiopeans where did it move to?

Answer 14

It mmoved acriss south east asia to countries like vietnam and south china but it hat a lot kless intenstity

Question 15

How many home did it destory?

Answer 15

Over 1 million

Question 16

It became a discussion for what?

Answer 16

Disaster prepairedness
climate change and extreme weather
And the importance of early wanning systems

Question 17

When did it hit

Answer 17

8/11/13

Question 18

Why did the stom hitting in the morning make it worse?

Answer 18

People were still home in bed very unprepaired
Some people also delayed leaving as they just thought it was a normall storm
people didnt understand what a strom surge was
Also menat low visibility in the area
communication gap - if there were any then they were over night when most people were sleeping

Question 19

Tell me about it’ future affect on infastuture?

Answer 19

BBBS So building homes more storm resistant
Creating no build zones in high risk coastal areas
Tacloban was re design to better handle similar disasters

Question 20

Tell me abiut the better disaster prepairedness?

Answer 20

improved early warning signs
more organised evacuation plns
communittes now do regualr disaster drills

Question 21

What did the UN do inrealtion to the event?

Answer 21

Had both immediate and long term responces to the disater
emergency supples - food ect
air and logistic support for hard hit areas like Tacloban
Medical help set up feild hospitals and sent over nurese and doctors

The Un declared it as a level 3 - highest level - emergency so a massive global responce was activated

It ated as a centeral coordinate between different organisations like:
World food program
UNICEF
WHO

Supported livelihoods like fishing and farming
Helped communites becmone more resilant to future storms

Lanched a global appeal for billions of dollars in aid
And keep international attention focused on the crisis

Question 22

Did meteorologists know about the strom before it hit?

Answer 22

Yes using satelights and computer models - agencies like PAGASA + international groups predicted it’s path/track over the area and knew it had extreme strength

Question 23

If people knew it was going to happen why did they not evacuate?

Answer 23

the term “storm surge” wasnt well understood between people and some didnt elise it menat fast deadly flooding like a tsunami

vunrable communities on low lying areas evacuation wasnt possiblw

Question 24

What happend to technology + other things after the storm?

Answer 24

simple langaue of life threatening slood was used
noyt just storm surge
better gis focused on evacuation plans
more mobile alrets throgh socila media
stonger communication between scientist and local communites