Phillipines hazard report week 16
Aaron Flores Blog Week 16 Out of all the hazards in this part of the course, my country, the Philippines, is very prone to severe and extreme weather. This is the hazard I would try to mitigate. Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, unpredictable severe or unseasonal weather. 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. The Philippines, Cambodia and India were the countries hardest hit by extreme weather events in 2013, according to a study unveiled on Tuesday at U.N. talks in Lima on a global deal to limit climate change. 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. ...