Why The Philippines Is So VULNERABLE To Natural Disasters
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The Philippines is an incredible archipelagic country consisting of some of the most awe inspiring mountain views, tropical rainforests, and sandy beaches. It also happens to be the most vulnerable country in the world when it comes to natural disasters, as highlighted by the World Risk Index Report in 2023. So what makes this country in particular so vulnerable? Well, as usual, it all comes back to the physical and human geography of the country.
But while the Philippines is very vulnerable, the reality is that south, east and southeast Asia is the most natural disaster-prone regions of the entire world. Which is unfortunate because it's also home to over half the world's population.
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As someone from Hong Kong, the typhoons we get are usually severely weakened because they get smashed at Luzon
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@@skybluskyblueify yep
For the last 5 years, the number of typhoons that hit the country are less than 15 in a year. They are not so strong also. Most of the strong typhoons hit China.
You still believe the old story.
@@skybluskyblueifyAlso the Florida of Asia
They say the Philippines is Asia's welcome mat to typhoons.
@@JimJones-kj8jk I hate how true this is 😂
It’s funny that no matter how damaged the Philippine cities by typhoons, they’re instantly rebuilt in weeks to months. While a modern city New Orleans got so much bad after Katrina obliterated it, the population got declined badly and the society had screwed up.
Correction it's Door mat actually
@@jadmillete4247 correction, for some reason it's the gate doormat
Well we get free pools for it
around 8-10 times a year
Fun Fact: During the Pinatubo eruption, a category 3 Typhoon struck Luzon at the same time as the pyroclastic eruption. These guys literally can't get a break.
😭
As a filipino category 3 is just a normal storm category 5 is just the strong
As a Filipino, I highly disappointed.
@@drewkastelajara3812I am* sorry i had to
@@ks_ig2728 I am too young to remember that. But JFC…
There was also an earthquake days before a signal no. 4 typhoon somewhere there. And a volcanic eruption that required evacuations just before the COVID lockdowns.
You just covered 5 months of Philippine Geography class within the first 4.5 minutes of your video.
Ikr. 😊
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Yes
Our geography class meant to be slow and steady as possible but our teachers tend to limit and be negligible.
@@andilouis8770 not all😭😭
Philippines is a typhoon magnet the way Florida is a hurricane magnet.
Florida doesn't get hit as much as Philippines
Florida is not even close to Philippines at all though in terms of landfalls
Typhoon in the philippine can recked the roof. Unlike in Florida hurricane it can wipe out the whole houses
@@franzgamerz6358 I think if you saw what cat 5 hurricanes like Michael can do in Florida you'd know that houses in the Sunshine State can and do get demolished. True that US building codes are better but with 130 mph plus sustained winds even the best structures won't hold up.
@@franzgamerz6358 what?
When Mt. Pinatubo blew up in the 90s there was also a typhoon happening at the same time.
It also happens last 2013, 2 weeks before the typhoon haiyan(yolanda), there was magnitude 7.2 earthquake happen in visayas
@@pabz7874So in Cebu some buildings were destroyed but because of Typhoon Yolanda their construction is ruined?
@@OfflineDisconnects both but majority caused by the earthquake itself. Typhoon haiyan(yolanda) didnt hit much the province but still devastating since it was under signal 3
@@pabz7874 that's not at the same time tho. Yunya was making landfall on the same day Pinatubo erupted, so what was supposed to be ashfall became more like a mudfall "raining down concrete"
The Bohol earthquake was a few months before Haiyan
@@MichaelRosales-ls7mu yeah almost a month but there was 1 typhoon i think or maybe only LPA hit our place weeks ahead before yolanda landfall. But still at that time we experience strong aftershocks
not so fun fact: the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in Luzon occurred while Typhoon Yunya was making a landfall in Luzon. what's crazier is that Yunya's eye literally passed directly above Mount Pinatubo. I have no idea how my parents survived that day
I was at university when that happened. A good friend of mine was Filipino. I remember it like it was yesterday… I’m happy your parents survived!
Imagine all the babies born at that time how horrible.
@@allier1867 present
@@allier1867 my brother was born during ulysses
I was 10 we were in Luzon for my sister's graduation 🎓 but we were already home in Mindanao a few weeks before it erupted. But my sister and her 1½ year old child got left behind for the paperwork. She said day turned to night.
Geoff learning that UA-camrs use Philippines in their titles to boost views 1000%
Anyway it has truth in it so that others may learn on how to be resilient
@@zethcao11realness
True! haha once foreign use Philippines or Filipinos as their content. 1000% sure of the high views hahahahaha
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It's one of the most unique areas in the entire world. Put the natural disasters aside. It can basically be considered a sort of natural paradise. There's such a rich diversity to it's geographic landscapes. More islands than anyone can count. Biodiversity on a level pretty much not seen anywhere else in the world. I could see someone using it's geographic footprint to base an alien sci-fi show. Getting creative with the biology and ways settlements built to adapt to it's unique landscape in order to bring the most out of their environment.
@@benmcreynolds8581 I can confirm this as true.
Too many islands so too many vacation spots you can just take a vacation on.
@@user-Chaoticyeah we have way more and better beaches than Thailand 🇹🇭 it's actually because of our negative reputation that few tourists come.
As a Filipino, ya this video is 100% truee 😅
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For the landslide part, there is actually much deadlier, recent and infamous landslide which was Guinsaugon on 2006, around 1200+ deaths which completely buried the village
This is fake news. For the earthquakes, it's not PH that's on top of the list. Google is free.
Why do Filipinos always start their sentences by introducing themselves first? I swear, if it's a Philippines related clip, I always see
"as a Filipino" comments everywhere.
Did you even bothered to check his profile before accusing him as such?
2:03
Basically, the Central Panay (puh-NIGH) Mountain Range is mostly covered by the Province of Antique (ahn-TEE-keh)
Btw, it is pronounced at Pah-Nai, not with a “Puh”
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I am curious, are you guys thriving by your standards? if so, what is the basis of this success? if not, is it just because of the frequent natural disasters?
@@nanook6620 I'm also a Filipino since he didn't reply here is my perspective on your comments
As a Filipino, I can share some insights. Our country faces many challenges, including natural disasters like typhoons, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. Despite these hardships, Filipinos are known for their resilience and strong sense of community.In terms of success, it's a mixed picture. Economically, the Philippines has seen growth and development in recent years, with improvements in infrastructure and a growing middle class. However, there are still significant issues such as poverty, corruption, and inequality that need to be addressed.Our spirit of "bayanihan" (communal unity) helps us overcome adversities, and while we may not always be thriving by all standards, our ability to come together and support each other is something we're very proud of.
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Bravo!!🎉 Nice vid and nice pronunciations of places!!!
I have relatives who live in the Philippines--particularly in Manila & the Mindanao city of Cotabato City. They really can't catch a break. Some even rely on descendants living & working aborad to send them remittances.
They need those dollars for their bertdey partis and karaoke seshons
No one invests in ARMM so it's poor. But SocGen and Davao are very progressive.
Thanks for the great video.
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aming bansa bangon babangun parin kami! Hindi kami SUSUKO! ❤🥰🤩
Mabuhay.....!
Tim Hortons might just be the biggest supporter of the Philippines. I love my coffee and I love these people.
Corruption is also a disaster...
Unlike the natural ones, that can't be prepared for.
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Not to be confused with the Cagayan (cug-ah-YAHN, CA-guh-yahn) de Oro River in Northern Mindanao.
It's ka gey yen
That is why we have slow economic development because natural disasters erase all our gains in a year. Yet, you see smile in every Filipinos face despite these adversities. Resiliency became our survival tool.
add the fact that our corrupt politicians just want us to focus on agriculture on a macro scale, they really just want us to be dirt poor while they are rich AF oligarchs.
take note: Japan is technology-industry based first economy rather than agriculture based, if our politicians threaten us to starve, why aren't Japs starving? look how rich Japan is compared to us.
As a Filipino, imagine a Typhoon like Haikui in 2012 who just doesn't want to hit Philippines but China...... Typhoon Haikui is such an unforgettable experience for people in the western parts of the Philippines because In the 72 hour rain accumulation in August metro manila, it reached 1000 mm. Typhoon enhancing
Important video.
11:30 I was in Okinawa when that earthquake and tsunami happened.
I remember last 2013, before the landfall of the strongest typhoon haiyan. Just a week before there was a strong magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck our place. Year 2013 was the worst year so far since a lot of disaster happens including war in zamboanga and sabah standoff
Rightly so.
@@pabz7874 taga Bohol ka?
Most Filipinos keep saying that the number one reason why the Philippines is so poor is because of corruption from the government, but they do not notice that the largest wasted expenses, especially among poor Filipinos, are from natural disasters and bad geography (even much worse than Japan as mentioned from this video), not corruption.
don't waste your time on people who don't have any amount of common sense in the comment section, they are spreading toxicity in a topic specific channel like Geography by Geoff because their only purpose in this world is to become toxic keyboard warriors.
@@e-tanking7578 hahaha I agree with you
Corruption from the government adds unnecessary damage though. Many people in the Philippines don't understand the word "priority" and don't think long term
Corruption is still number one.
Aside from volcanos, the disasters shouldn't be much of an impact if the annual budget isn't being pilfered for decades on end.
This video even directly states that the unplanned urban growth is a huge reason why even the most minor of weather phenomenon became a major problem.
Barely any urban planning, barely any disaster risk planning. Endless news of missing government funds every single year.
@@j134679 I disagree with you. Did you know how much would urban planning cost? Assuming that the country dont have that much corruption, that would still cost in billions of dollars given that our geography is really bad. The national government should cut other budgets from other departments (that would result to complaints and chaos) to place them in urban planning (like DILG, Housing, DOT, etc) and so private sectors are the ones who fund urban planning, but that is not enough. As part of urban planning, how would you convince people from the provinces (like 51% which is way below compared to developed countries) to live in sustainable cities without becoming squatters? That would be way expensive. Did you know how many people from the provinces want to move to Manila, Cebu or Davao so badly? Like A LOT OF THEM especially the young ones. But that would be hard to do because as migration demand grows to cities, living there would raise the prices up and become unsustainable and expensive for them to live (and that is why squatter exist). You would say we should get fiscal budgets from business taxes, but how can we attract local and foreign businesses and be at par with other developed countries if the geography is bad? Especially foreign investors they would rather choose developed cities where access to almost everything is easier and cheaper. In my opinion the Philippines should concentrate more on getting money from outside the country (FDI abroad, remittances, BPO, Import goods, foreign investments to Maharlika Funds) just like what Japan is doing, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Bro summoned the entire country.
Thank you Geoff for taking the time to do your research in pronunciation of the areas in the Philippines, it shows. One thing that drives Filipinos crazy is when a non-native speaker butchers the names and words in Tagalog. It makes a lot of people cringe. Although pronunciation is not perfect, it is some of the best non native pronunciation I have ever heard! Good job dude! Keep it going
One of a handful of channels that I honestly look forward to every time a new video is posted. I always learn something from you. Also great job on your pronunciations. I think I only caught one that gave you a little bit of difficulty. Keep up the great work!!!
Laguna de Bay's "Bay" is actually read as "Bye"
The fact that the Philippines can still manage to run still surprises me. Most other countries would just die and ran out of funds from all those yearly storms.
The government allocates funds yearly just for natural disasters.
As a filipino myself, not once have i experienced a severe natural disaster, not an earthquake or volcanic eruption, now i have expetienced typhoons but it never really bothered me since i was indoors
I was waiting for you to mention the Typhoon Belt which led to the creation of the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR). When an internationally named tropical storm enters the PAR, it is given its own local Philippine name to indicate that it sideswiped or directly hit the archipelago.
Video repeats itself for 10 minutes, with the content.
i think your graphic depiction of pacific ring of fire is wrong.. you use the other tectonic plate but the ring of fire should include Philippines, taiwan and japan.. three countries that is excluded when all of these countries just experience one of the worst disasters this year.. earthquake in japan in january 1, earthquake in taiwan a couple of months ago and volcanic eruption in Philippines this month..
i checked it just to be sure.. yes, you used the marianas trench instead of Philippine trench thats why Philippines, taiwan and japan are not included in the ring of fire you depicted on this video...
We're so used to it that expecting at least one Super Typhoon a year is usual. We can manage as usual though.
The archipelago is like a sea wall protecting the rest of Mainland Southeast Asia and some areas on east asia.
The biggest problems would be typhoons and flooding during La Niña season. Volcanoes don't always go off, just rarely, but it happens, and usually under safety parameters, that goes for earthquakes too, and Japan has lots of them. Landslides? China has loads of them!
As a filipino, yeah... disasters here are such a norm. Thankfully my country along my fellow southeast asians are resilient.
This is true and sad. Natural disasters make the philippine economy’s growth so sluggish. Billions of dollars are spent just for humanitarian aid, relief and major repairs.
The Taal Lake is the actual caldera of the volcano.
So it’s actually one of the largest in the planet.
It’s a super-volcano just like Yellowstone.
It isn't... It's largest eruption is only up to VEI 7... Also I'm pretty sure Yellow Stone as a whole is bigger than Mindoro Island
@@animesenpai1163And yes, you are correct, largest eruption id VEI 7. I think it was 144.0km³ tephra
no no, Mount Taal is not a super volcano.. Supervolcanoes at least have eruptions that reach 1000 km³, Mount Taal has never experienced an eruption like that.. Mount Taal's largest eruption was only at VEI 7 which reached 145 km³.
@@thelastvulcano8821that's what they said about Dante's Peak
I remember around covid when Taal was blowing ash to warn of an eruption, my friends online seemed concerned for me and i told them i was fine but then i told them that the ash fall made my garden bloom uncontrollably for 6 months straight after and that the volcano that would erupt was a 2 hour drive from where i live and that the specific volcano erupts all the time so it's just another day. Then they worried more. I still dont understand why they were. I'm in my mid20s and how many times have i heard of news about Taal erupting in my life? It seems to happen almost every other year :/
@@mikku54432 how old are u when the taal volcano eruption in 2020 occured
Yeah their overreacting
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It was Philippines Day just last week.
They have it wrong, it should be on 4 July
@@fjp3305 Fil-Am Frensdhip?
@@revinhatolAmerica originally released The Philippines on a July 4 but eventually the Philippines moved the Independence Day to Jun 12 coz they don't want to be celebrating 4th of July with America.
I can't believe you covered an entire semester in just a few minutes.
This video is 💯 accurate 👌
Don't forget that the Philippines is geopolitically vulnerable to a military Chinese invasion because China can exploit our fragmented geography and ethnolinguistic diversity to their own benefit, so there is a need for us to have a neutral common language like English or Spanish because Tagalog isn't doing its jobs in unifying Filipinos. Our geography dictates that we should have an open-door economic policy, especially for foreign investments, however, the Philippine constitution scares any legitimate foreign investor from investing in our country by requiring them to partner with a Filipino investor where 60% equity must be invested by the Filipino investor partner in a domestic corporation and private land.
Yeah the corruption, protectionism, and fragmentation have always been a problem. You’re right, it could easily be an “Asian Tiger” like some of the other countries in the region with its dense population and diverse geography. Hopefully the government sees positive reforms in the future, somewhat like how Taiwan went from a fairly brutal one-party system under the Kuomintang and now there is genuine competition from more liberal parties and more international trade (obviously). But China will dominate the entire region unless they suffer a decline or begin to stagnate as Japan did in the 90s. They will probably always be a powerhouse in the region, though.
@@dukeon the Philippines is an oligarchy in truth, there is barely any real political party. Just business interests that align with whoever rubs your back the best.
Filipinos are tough, brave and resilient happy people that despite of all natural disasters that has passed our country Philippines....landslides, flash floods, earthquakes, volcano eruptions.....would you believe they can still smile and make fun! Look at the video footages ....😊😊😊😊🎶 "We get by with a smile" 🎵
Video on typhoons v. Monsoons
As a Filipino, we become numb towards every disaster very quickly, some of us would go outside for ice cream in the middle of a monsoon or typhoon, and every electrical power outage sometimes lasts days till weeks, even water becomes scarce during and after a natural disaster, in the end we filipinos tend to get used to disasters like it's a daily part of our lives 😂
Philippines and Indonesia taking the hit of natural disasters: 😭🤯😱☹️🥺☺️🧟🦹🏻
Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Borneo Indonesia:
🥰☺️😁🤩🥳😋💃🏻🕺🏻
You should have listed Brownouts.
The power goes out often.
Yeah im from Philippines in Mindanao theres a huge earthquake here 7.8 so scary i got traumatized 13 days
Here, I survive because of Jollibee 🗿
@@iseeyou-qw4zx tama, tama.....
we chillin with cat 5 supertyphoons here
also me: */gets stuck on an airport because some random volcano erupts
How do we survive? Considering that we drink coffee at 30 degrees and higher while some kids have the waist-high floods as a massive outdoor pool and jet ski pool; well...
Only the most virgin Pacific Ocean 🌊 water 💦 that enters the Philippines and exits to various Asian countries due to the rotation of the earth 🌎🌍. Love the Philippine beaches! Same is true about air.
Bagyo lang yan, Pinoy kami!!!🇵🇭😃🤟✌️🕊️🌍
They need to hire a team of Dutch engineers and Icelandic volcanologists to help them with disaster preparedness and prevention. These experts are used to dealing with such challenges, albeit their countries have a less complex home geography.
Lupang hinirang, kasi kami ang laging nahihirang na magdusa sa kung anu-anong sakuna.
Pacific Ring of fire is a gift and a curse for the country of the Philippines.
Frequently experiences Calamities but not vulnerable. For straight decade since Haiyan and 1990 earthquake. Philippines robust to less than 10 casualties. Last year 6 earthquakes of 7+ magnitude but casualties is only 5 and not much of the damage. Compare to Syria and Turkey, their infrastructures are better.
So what's the next video's about?
Typhoon Amy also made landfall when Hibok hibok was erupting.
My watching this in a typhoon/thunderstorm right now
Btw my from the Philippines
The names of the thypoon start from A to Z every year
During these natural calamities, we Filipinos just smile cause we are 💪🏼 yet our feet are always on ground chin up
FILIPINOS: WHAT DOESN'T KILL ME MAKES ME STRONGEEER!!!
Were so used to typhoons we call them "waterpark" we play in the typhoon😂😂
Typhoon? That just translates to 2 weeks of agonizing power outages
a flood is just a normal day for us its just a free pool😂
As a filipino This makes me feel like living in extreme harmony.
Wait the "strong rain" i experience is a freaking typhoon?!
For the people questioning how can we still smile in the pictures youve seen after a typhoon our house are flooded pur things are destroyed its simple, sanay nah or we are used to it
My prof, said, OUR country is like a big mountain barrier for our neighboring countries on the west
"PH taking hits from multiple natural disasters"
PH: throughout heaven and earth I alone am the vulnerable one.
Cue the music "I will survive" by Gloria Gaynor.
And here i thought Indonesia was the home of natural disasters! I never think there's was other country other than Indonesia that was always getting the boom's and swooshes, and turns out i was wrong, you just opened my mind 👍Keep that wits strong Philiphines. Also great game you made (Until Then), love from ID ✨
filipino here, don't worry, we find a way to survive (and a way to have fun too)
Thank you, you are what I love about the internet. I was gonna say UA-cam.😊
We just got used to it and now the government is now more prepared
when I was young, I really thought typhoons and earthquakes are common to every country
Well...
At least we don't have snow so no snowstorms or whatever people from countries with snow are experiencing...that would make things a lot worse here than it already is.
Life on the Ring of Fire is both paradise and hell in equal measures. They just did an update on the Cascadia fault line and it's much angrier and overdue for a huge mega-thrust than first thought so look out anyone from Northern California to the end of Vancouver Island! You might want to be extra prepared just in case... ;-)
Born and raised in Oregon. I'm interested in whenever that event is going to happen and how strong it's going to be? One thing we are lucky about here is that a good portion of our coastline consists of rocky cliffs. Then we have the Coastal mountain range before the Willamette valley. Luckily there isn't much high rise buildings here. I'm curious if flooding will be the biggest part of the event? I wonder if it could cause a influx of water to be pushed down into the Willamette valley area? I'm sure we will see a ton of bridge damage making travel a huge huge issue in different areas
looking at the past record, its probably only happen once every hundreds of years. compare it to sumatran tsunami which happen once every decades.
and now we Filipinos are suffering from bullies from other countries, corruption,small county but not united. i still believe one day pilipino will unite..
Malakas kami dito gar! Pilipins numbah 1
Pinatubo my 1st fav volcano in history
I'm from the philipppines and we are ded if there's a typhoons literally sometimes over 200,000 people will 💀
Imagine the peoples guts and adapting ability the locals has to do for their survival.
Most of the reasons that make the Philippines (and most of southwest Asia) so vulnerable also make it so populous--the fertile soils from the volcanos combined with equatorial year-round warm weather and heavy rain make it a rich supplier of rice and other nutrient dense foods. Of course, the volcanoes also bring eruptions, landslides, earthquakes, and tsunamis, but not nearly enough to offset the benefits provided by constant agriculture for thousands of years, hence the dense populations.
*southeast
I've been a lurker on this channel for quite som time now.
Even though I'm a 60+ years old fart, I'm still curious about many things.
Geography being one of them.
I love the content that you create!
You have earned a new Patreon.
As a local resident of Metro Manila, most of these topics are relatively true.
As how I like to personally describe this case with natural disasters, “The Philippine Islands is mother nature’s B****.”
As a Pokémon fan, I always like to humor myself that altogether and Groudon are not that far from the country if they are real. Oh, and also the Three Unovan Genies (Tornadus, Thundurus, and Landorus.)
We just can’t catch a break.
You forgot China and the confrontations of Scarborough Shoal and the possibility of a military action.
We just buolt different. You call that flood while we call that free swimming pool. You call that volcanic eruption, we call that no school day. You call that tornadoes, we call that "Wait, that shit exists?".
Pilipinos are brave......
I feel bad from the college schools
Philippines: nah, id adapt