The Philippines

Disasters in The Philippines (1905-2007)
1. Droughts
  1. Number of events: 6
  2. Total killed: 8
  3. Total injured: 6
  4. Total homeless: 0
  5. Total affected: 6 million
  6. Damage ($m): 64 000
  7. E.G. April 1998 - 2.5 million severely affected
2. Earthquakes
  1. Number of events: 21
  2. Total killed: 9,580
  3. Total injured: 13,051
  4. Total homeless: 3,985
  5. Total affected: 2.25 million
  6. Damage ($m) 844 485
  7. E.G. Manila 1990 - 6,000 killed
3. Floods
  1. Number of events: 72
  2. Total killed: 2,716
  3. Total injured: 570
  4. Total homeless: 500,000
  5. Total affected: 11.25 million
  6. Damage ($m) 446 361
  7. E.G. July 1972 - 2.7 million affected
4. Slide
  1. Number of events: 25
  2. Total killed: 69
  3. Total homeless: 23,000
  4. Total injured: 381
  5. Damage ($m) 12 258
  6. Total affected: 310,663
  7. E.G. February 2006, 1,126 killed
5. Volcano
  1. Number of events: 20
  2. Total killed: 2,996
  3. Total injured: 1,188
  4. Total homeless: 79,000
  5. Total affected: 1.5 million
  6. Damage ($m) 23,961
  7. E.G. Taal, July 2011, 1,335
6. Tsunamis
  1. Number of events: 5
  2. Total killed: 69
  3. Total injured: 0
  4. Total affected: 5,250
  5. Damage ($m) 6,000
  6. E.G. Worst Tsunami 1976
  7. Total homeless: 0
7. Typhoon
  1. Number of events: 241
  2. Total killed: 35,983
  3. Total injured: 29,178
  4. Total homeless: 6.25 million
  5. Total affected: 86 million
  6. Damage ($m) 9,018,574
  7. E.G. November 1991, 6000 killed
Location
1. An island arc in Southeast Asia.
2. Consists of 7,000 low lying islands.
3. Islands at latitudes between 5 and 20 degrees North of the Equator.
4. It lies in a belt of tropical cyclones and astride an active plate boundary.
5. The dense oceanic Philippine plate is being sub ducted beneath the lighter continental Eurasian plate at a rate of 3 cm per year.
6. The Philippines is vulnerable to Earthquakes and has 17 active volcanoes such as Mount Pinatubo because of its location.
7. There is a tropical monsoon climate and the country is subject to heavy rainfall.
8. Flooding can lead to landslides because of deforestation.
  1. The Philippines has lost 56% of forest cover since 1945
Population
1. It is a lower-middle-income country which is developing quickly.
2. 45% of the population are under 18
3. Average of 240 people per km squared 2,000 people per km square in the Megacity of Manila

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