Philippine Mega Disaster: 2 Million Displaced
Posted by feww on November 16, 2013
Super Typhoon HAIYAN affects 13 pct. of Philippine population, leaves 2 pct. homeless
The number of people affected has increased to nearly 13 million, with about 2 million people displaced. The latest figures, provided by the U.N., represent a significant increase from the previous bulletin.
- According to the latest figures, more than 2 percent of the Philippines population of about 99 million are now homeless as a result of Super Typhoon HAIYAN.
Many people may have been swept out to sea and their bodies lost after a tsunami-like wall of seawater slammed into coastal areas. One neighborhood with a population of between 10,000 and 12,000 was now deserted, said Tacloban mayor Alfred Romualdez.
On November 9, 2013, FIRE-EARTH Models estimated the impact of Super Typhoon HAIYAN in the Philippines as a magnitude 6.2 catastrophe on the FEWW Disaster Scale, indicating large-scale regional destruction with up to 40,000 casualties.
FIRE-EARTH Disaster Models estimate the total cost of damage at more than $5billion.
Philippine Government’s [Highly Politicized] Official Disaster Stats:
Source: SitRep No. 22 released by Philippines National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRMC) November 16, 2013. [$1 = 43.66 Philippine pesos]
[Notes: Official estimates for the total cost of damage has been amended to PhP9,460,240,222.13] which is more realistic than the initial estimates. Philippines population is about 99 million.]
This post will be updated throughout the day as more information becomes available.
Super Typhoon HAIYAN: Chronology of Disaster
Super Typhoon HAIYAN (locally known as YOLANDA) made its first landfall in the early morning of 8 November in Guiuan, Eastern Samar province. HAIYAN made subsequent landfalls in Tolosa south of Tacloban City, Leyte province, Daanbantayan and Bantayan Island, Cebu province, Conception, Iloilo province and Busuanga, Palawan province.
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