Chapter 8 c0040 Storm Surge Due to 2013 Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in Leyte Gulf, the Philippines Hiroshi Takagi 1 , Mario de Leon 2 , Esteban Miguel 3 , Takahito Mikami 4 , Ryota Nakamura 4 1 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Japan, 2 De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, 3 The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan, 4 Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan s0010 1. Introduction p0015 Typhoon Yolanda (or Haiyan, according to its international name) struck the Philippines on the November 8, 2013, causing enormous damage to Leyte, Samar, and many other islands, with the locations of the worst affected areas shown in Figure 1. As a result 6,293 individuals were reported dead, 28,689 were injured and 1,061 are still missing (NDRRMC, as of 3 April, 2014). Actually, Yolanda was one of the strongest typhoons known to have ever made landfall in the Philip- pines, and was also one of the deadliest natural disasters to have affected this country. The death toll even surpassed that of the 1991 floods in the Ormoc region in western Leyte, where 5,101 people were killed by Tropical Storm Thelma (TIME, 2013). The total economic loss associated with infrastructure and agriculture was estimated to be Comp. by: Ananathan Stage: Revises3 Chapter No.: 8 Title Name: Esteban Date:27/5/15 Time:10:39:58 Page Number: 131 131 Handbook of Coastal Disaster Mitigation for Engineers and Planners. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801060-0.00008-3 © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. B978-0-12-801060-0.00008-3, 00008 Esteban, 978-0-12-801060-0 To protect the rights of the author(s) and publisher we inform you that this PDF is an uncorrected proof for internal business use only by the author(s), editor(s), reviewer(s), Elsevier and typesetter SPi. It is not allowed to publish this proof online or in print. This proof copy is the copyright property of the publisher and is confidential until formal publication.