DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT

COPING WITH NATURAL DISASTERSBy

Grace P. Sapuay

The Philippines

Population: >100 MillionLocation: Edge of Southeast Asia facing the Pacific Ocean

8-9 tropical cyclones make landfall annually

10 or more entering the Philippine Area of Responsibility

Tropical Storm Ondoy (Ketsana)

September 26, 2009…They thought it was just another rainy Day

• no one was spared, rich and poor suffered in the floods;

• rich and poor perished in the floods;• they lost their houses and some family

members

Everyone was shocked at the sudden flooding caused by TS Ketsana

The birth of Philippine disaster risk reduction management act 2010 known as Republic Act 10121

strengthen the Philippine disaster risk reduction and management system

provide the framework for National disaster risk reduction and management.

Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)A category 5 Super Typhoon

November 8, 2013

• 6,340 deaths • 1,061 remain missing• Damage to infrastructure : PHP89,598,068,634.88.• A DEVASTATION LIKE NO OTHER THAT ANY

FILIPINO HAS EVER SEEN AFTER WORLD WAR II

highest wind speed : 315 km/hourImpacts: DestructiveGuian, Eastern Samar Tacloban, Leyte

Recovery…

Amid all the shocks…the Filipino spirit of Bayanihan lives.

This helps the people cope and move on.

Photo credits and online sources• Charism Sayat / AFP / Getty Images• : http://www.dnd.gov.ph/pdf/OCD-NDRRMC%20-%20Republic%20Act

%2010121%20&%20IRR%20-%204%20July%202011.pdf• http://www.theguardian.com/• http://hubpages.com/education/Philippines-State-of-Emergency-for-Typhoon-

Ondoy• ffemagazine.com• http://janeuymatiao.com/2009/09/27/tropical-storm-ketsanaondoy-

inundates-metro-manila/• www.ue.edu.ph• www.rappler.com• yolanda.neda.gov.ph• en.wikipedia.org• http://world.time.com/2013/11/11/the-philippines-is-the-most-storm-

exposed-country-on-earth/vaes9.codedgraphic.com