IB Geography – Hazards & Disasters Case Study Summary Sheet for Haiyan Typhoon 2013 (LEDC) Where did it happen? The Philippines area series of islands located in the South China Sea, east of Vietnam and north of Indonesia. The capital of the Philippines is Manila. This islands regularly suffer from considerable typhoons that sweep in from the south west every year during the tropical storm season. Typhoon Haiyan originated from an area of low pressure several hundred kilometers east-southeast of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia on November 2, 2013. Moving generally westward, the system developed into a tropical depression the following day. After becoming a tropical storm and attaining the name Haiyan on November 4, the system began a period of rapid intensification that brought it to typhoon intensity on November 5. Haiyan is unofficially the fourth most intense tropical cyclone ever observed. CIA Fact Box – Philippines Need To Know Indicator Values (2014 estimated) GDP per capita PPP $4700 People Living in Poverty (less than $2 per day) 27% of the population Access to Clean Water 95.4% of the population Life Expectancy 72 years Literacy Rate 48.7% People Per Doctor 1.15 doctors per 1000 people When did it happen? Date. Struck the Philippines on November 7th & 8th 2013 Time (local). Late afternoon and night time – high winds and devastating storm surge. Duration. The tropical depression was first tracked on 2nd November and continued to grow and feed off the tropical ocean temperatures developing into a fully-fledged tropical storm on 4th November and then rapidly intensified into the most powerful tropical storm every recorded making landfall on 7th November then making a further 5 landfalls (other Filipino islands) as is crossed the country, before heading north westwards over the South China Sea and eventually to Vietnam as a severe tropical storm.
IB Geography – Hazards & Disasters Case Study Summary Sheet for Haiyan Typhoon 2013 (LEDC) Where did it happen? The Philippines area series of islands located in the South China Sea, east of Vietnam and north of Indonesia. The capital of the Philippines is Manila. This islands regularly suffer from considerable typhoons that sweep in from the south west every year during the tropical storm season. Typhoon Haiyan originated from an area of low pressure several hundred kilometers east-southeast of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia on November 2, 2013. Moving generally westward, the system developed into a tropical depression the following day. After becoming a tropical storm and attaining the name Haiyan on November 4, the system began a period of rapid intensification that brought it to typhoon intensity on November 5. Haiyan is unofficially the fourth most intense tropical cyclone ever observed. CIA Fact Box – Philippines Need To Know Indicator Values (2014 estimated) GDP per capita PPP $4700 People Living in Poverty (less than $2 per day) 27% of the population Access to Clean Water 95.4% of the population Life Expectancy 72 years Literacy Rate 48.7% People Per Doctor 1.15 doctors per 1000 people When did it happen? Date. Struck the Philippines on November 7th & 8th 2013 Time (local). Late afternoon and night time – high winds and devastating storm surge. Duration. The tropical depression was first tracked on 2nd November and continued to grow and feed off the tropical ocean temperatures developing into a fully-fledged tropical storm on 4th November and then rapidly intensified into the most powerful tropical storm every recorded making landfall on 7th November then making a further 5 landfalls (other Filipino islands) as is crossed the country, before heading north westwards over the South China Sea and eventually to Vietnam as a severe tropical storm.