Learning from Typhoon Haiyan | Nature

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe In our view, the communication of disaster risk during Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the Philippines in November 2013, could have been better.

The typhoon was one of the strongest tropical storms ever to make landfall, registering category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson scale. Despite forecasts of winds of more than 300 kilometres per

hour and a predicted 7-metre storm surge, the city of Tacloban was caught underprepared: thousands died from the inundation. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your

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* Learn about institutional subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact customer support AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * New York University, New York, USA Raul Lejano * University

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CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Correspondence to Raul Lejano. RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Lejano, R., Tan, J. & Wilson, M. Learning from

Typhoon Haiyan. _Nature_ 518, 35 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/518035d Download citation * Published: 04 February 2015 * Issue Date: 05 February 2015 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/518035d

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