Learning from Typhoon Haiyan | Nature

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.

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