Friday, March 11, 2016

Typhoon


Typhoon Yolanda orHaiyan,strongest typhoon in the Philippines.

Pre-History

  • There are no recorded disaster about typhoons in the Philippines Before the History was written, typhoons were never given names.

Cyclones

Rank[17]StormDates of impactDeaths
1September 1881 typhoon1881, September 2720,000
3Haiyan/Yolanda 20132013, November 7–86,241[19]
4Bopha/Pablo 20122012, December 2–91,901
5Angela Typhoon1867, September 221,800[20]
6Winnie 20042004, November 27–301,593
7October 1897 Typhoon1897, October 71,500[20]
8Ike/Nitang 19841984, September 3–61,492
9Fengshen/Frank 20082008, June 20–231,410
10Durian/Reming 20062006, November 29-December 11,399
Costliest Philippine typhoons
RankNamesDates of impactPHPUSDRef
1Bopha, (Pablo)November 25 – December 9, 201242.2 billion1.04 billion[21]
2Haiyan, (Yolanda)November 3 – 11, 201335.5 billion809 million[22]
3Parma, (Pepeng)October 2 – 10, 200927.3 billion608 million[23]
4Nesat, (Pedring)September 26 – 28, 201115 billion333 million[24]
5Fengshen, (Frank)June 20 – 23, 200813.5 billion301 million[25]
6Ketsana, (Ondoy)September 25 – 27, 200911 billion244 million[23]
7Mike, (Ruping)November 10 – 14, 199010.8 billion241 million[26]
8Angela, (Rosing)October 30 – November 4, 199510.8 billion241 million[26]
9Flo, (Kadiang)October 2 – 6, 19938.75 billion195 million[26]
10Megi (Juan)October 18 – 21, 20108.32 billion193 million[27]

Extinctions

  • Extinctions Might caused by the natural calamities, like Climate changes, Astronomical Events, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, Wild fires and even floods these disasters and even human huntings can resulted to extinctions.

The Stegodon, Once roamed in the plains of LuzonMindanao and entire Philippine Archipelago.

Diprotodon became extinct around 50,000 years ago, Due toClimate change.
PeriodStart DateExtinctionDateCause
Mid-HoloceneExtinction of Large Mammals2050 BCVolcanic Eruption. and Climate change
Holocene500,000 years agoExtinction of Large AnimalsVolcanic Eruptions.A volcanic eruption was occurred In the present location of Taal lake, during Mid-Holocene, causes the Species ofProboscideans like Stegodon to become exitinct.
Pleistocene2 million -13,000 yrs agoQuaternary extinction event640,000, 74,000, and 13,000 years agoClovis comet? (13,000 years ago) Eruption of Super Volcano? (640,000 years ago)[1] Hunting by humans? Climate change?
PliocenePliocene–Pleistocene boundary marine extinction2 Ma

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