Super Typhoon Haiyan which is known as super typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, the 24th typhoon to hit the country in 2013, is the world’s ‘most devastating typhoon to make a landfall’ in the entire human history. It struck the middle region of the Philippines killing thousands of people and causing billions of pesos worth of economic damages and losses. Tacloban, the capital of the province of Leyte which is approximately 360 miles southeast of Manila and is the largest city in the Eastern Visayas gaining the title of a highly urbanized city, was drastically damaged mainly due to storm surge flooding. The exceptional vulnerability of Tacloban was identified to be due to four reasons: the city’s large population, degree of urbanization, geographical location and last but not the least, its weak coastal areas. Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines assessed the disaster preparedness of 12 cities in the Philippines including Tacloban. Several aspects are to be considered including Tacloban’s environmental and socio-economic exposure as well as its adaptive capacity towards catastrophic threats like Haiyan. This paper aims to provide better visualization on how danger-prone areas like Tacloban should act in anticipation of occurrence of extreme weather events. Development of strategies will also be tackled in relation to the development of disaster response

• Imee V. Necesito(Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kongju National University)
• JMicah Lourdes A. Felix(Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kongju National University)
• Sangman Jeong(Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kongju National University) Corresponding author