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The Philippines
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Mapa Mental sobre The Philippines, criado por HarrietMackinney em 08-05-2014.
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the philippines
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geography
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hazards
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The Philippines
Disasters in The Philippines (1905-2007)
Droughts
Number of events: 6
Total killed: 8
Total injured: 6
Total homeless: 0
Total affected: 6 million
Damage ($m): 64 000
E.G. April 1998 - 2.5 million severely affected
Earthquakes
Number of events: 21
Total killed: 9,580
Total injured: 13,051
Total homeless: 3,985
Total affected: 2.25 million
Damage ($m) 844 485
E.G. Manila 1990 - 6,000 killed
Floods
Number of events: 72
Total killed: 2,716
Total injured: 570
Total homeless: 500,000
Total affected: 11.25 million
Damage ($m) 446 361
E.G. July 1972 - 2.7 million affected
Slide
Number of events: 25
Total killed: 69
Total homeless: 23,000
Total injured: 381
Damage ($m) 12 258
Total affected: 310,663
E.G. February 2006, 1,126 killed
Volcano
Number of events: 20
Total killed: 2,996
Total injured: 1,188
Total homeless: 79,000
Total affected: 1.5 million
Damage ($m) 23,961
E.G. Taal, July 2011, 1,335
Tsunamis
Number of events: 5
Total killed: 69
Total injured: 0
Total affected: 5,250
Damage ($m) 6,000
E.G. Worst Tsunami 1976
Total homeless: 0
Typhoon
Number of events: 241
Total killed: 35,983
Total injured: 29,178
Total homeless: 6.25 million
Total affected: 86 million
Damage ($m) 9,018,574
E.G. November 1991, 6000 killed
Location
An island arc in Southeast Asia.
Consists of 7,000 low lying islands.
Islands at latitudes between 5 and 20 degrees North of the Equator.
It lies in a belt of tropical cyclones and astride an active plate boundary.
The dense oceanic Philippine plate is being sub ducted beneath the lighter continental Eurasian plate at a rate of 3 cm per year.
The Philippines is vulnerable to Earthquakes and has 17 active volcanoes such as Mount Pinatubo because of its location.
There is a tropical monsoon climate and the country is subject to heavy rainfall.
Flooding can lead to landslides because of deforestation.
The Philippines has lost 56% of forest cover since 1945
Population
It is a lower-middle-income country which is developing quickly.
45% of the population are under 18
Average of 240 people per km squared 2,000 people per km square in the Megacity of Manila
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