[124136] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Earthquakes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed Mar 24 20:15:02 2010
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:14:12 -0700
To: Ken Gilmour <ken.gilmour@gmail.com>
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On 2010-03-24, at 13:12, Ken Gilmour wrote:
> We had a 6.2 last year in Costa Rica... We immediately regretted where =
we
> had placed our racks and are almost finished a project to move them to =
a
> concrete floor (rather than that compressed cardboard stuff). Lost a =
lot of
> hard drives that day! We regularly have quakes between the 4-5 region =
here.
> By regularly, i mean a minimum of 5 times a year in different parts of =
the
> country.
If there is interest in data centre provisioning or construction, =
disaster planning or inside/outside plant strategies intended to =
mitigate damage by earthquakes then the NZNOG list might well be a good =
English-language place to get some advice.
Earthquakes of magnitude 4 and up happen pretty regularly (several times =
per week is common).
http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/recent_quakes.html
http://www.nznog.org/
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Joe
