Phillipines Catastrophes Aaron Flores

Aaron Flores Week 13 blog Coastal Hazards are physical phenomena that expose a coastal area to risk of property damage, loss of life and environmental degradation.   The Philippines coastal flood hazard is classified as high according to the information that is currently available.   According to the IPCC (2013), there is high confidence that extremes in sea level will increase in the Philippines with mean sea level rise yet there is low confidence in region-specific projections in storm surges.  This means that potentially-damaging waves are expected to flood the coast at least once in the next 10 years.  According to data by the World Meteorological Organization, the water levels around the Philippines are rising at a rate almost three times the global average due partly to the influence of the trade winds pushing ocean currents. On average, sea levels around the world rise 3.1 centimeters every ten years. Water levels in the Philippines are projected to ...

Aaron Flores Week 10 Blog Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, unpredictable severe or unseasonal weather.  Often, extreme events are based on a location's recorded weather history and defined as lying in the most unusual ten percent.  My country, the Philippines, placed 2nd among 178 countries that have suffered the most extreme weather events such as flooding and typhoons last year, according to the 2014 Global Climate Risk Index.  Extreme weather affected the Philippines and Pakistan the most, killing 530,000 people and causing losses of more than US$2.5 trillion.  This extreme hazard for weather in the Philippines is due to their plate tectonics as well as their dangerous location in the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Philippines needs to provide adequate financial and institutional support to help boost their disaster preparedness and resilience.  Because of these hazards, the Philippines is trying to limit th...