- Title
- Reconstruction and Recovery in the Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
- Abstract
- On November 6, 2013, the World Bank team followed intently reports of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) in Pearl Harbor as it estimated that Typhoon Haiyan had attained Category 5– equivalent “super typhoon” status. The JTWC’s unofficial 315 kilometer per hour (195 mile per hour) estimate of one-minute sustained winds would make Haiyan the most powerful storm ever recorded to strike land. Compounding fears was the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck the same region on October 15, 2013—just three weeks earlier—centered in the island of Bohol in Central Visayas. By November 9, Haiyan had exited the Philippines, leaving in its wake a path of destruction that affected 14 million people and displaced 4 million in the Visayas region. As of December 2013, 5,982 people were dead, 27,022 injured, and some 1,779 reported missing, making Haiyan the deadliest storm ever to have hit the Philippines. Over 1.1 million houses were damaged or completely destroyed (GoP 2013). The Bank teams mobilized quickly to gather reconstruction and recovery specialists with experience of major disasters in Haiti, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and elsewhere. One lesson learned from years of supporting disaster recovery is that reconstruction begins on day one, and important decisions made by governments in the early hours have an impact on the success or failure of long- term reconstruction efforts.
- Publication Date
- Oct. 1, 2014, 2:43 p.m.
- Category
- Geoscientific Information
- information pertaining to earth sciences. Examples: geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth s rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, erosion
- Regions
- Philippines
- Responsible
- andy
- Language
- English
- Supplemental Information
- No information provided
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