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Causes Of Natural Disasters

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Natural disaster like typhoons and storms is very common in the Philippines. It causes storm surge along coasts and trigger landslide and flash flood in the mountains. A number of typhoons or storms hit the Country every year especially in Cagayan de Oro and it affects enormous quantity of people in the country. Flash flood is a perfect and a common outcome and issue when sudden storm unleash a torrential down fall or heavy rainfall occurs, runoff moves with a surprising force. The Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) described a flood as “a significant rise of water level in a stream, lake, reservoir or coastal region”. Floods occur differed on timelines, ranging from flash floods with little warning to those that evolve over days or weeks (Doocy et al. 2013) Flash floods is characterized by high-velocity flows and short warning times have the highest average mortality rates per event and are responsible for the majority of flood deaths in developing countries (Jonkman et al. 2005). The Philippines is a known country most exposed to tropical storms in the world. due to its location along the Ring of Fire, or typhoon belt a large Pacific Ocean region. In the recent years Mindanao especially Cagayan de Oro has been experiencing Flashflood. On 2011 of December 16 Tropical Storm Sendong brought flooding and mudslides that resulted in over 650 deaths and 800 still missing (Matt, 2011).

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