[143953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Aug 23 20:49:35 2011
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:48:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <201108231854.15526.lowen@pari.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Lamar Owen wrote:
> At the time I wondered if anything near the IX's in that area might be
> impacted,
Although any Internet Exchange Facility can have bad luck (i.e. remember
the Ashburn data center damaged by a hurricane/tornado in 2004), most of
the major IX's in the US are built for above average hazards based on
where they are located. Earthquakes are rarer on the East Coast of the
US, but the buiding code still lists design earthquake requirements for
essential facilities. The more difficult thing is probably convincing
customers that don't want to bolt down their equipment cabinets in the
data center.
Of course it never ends. There is a hurricane forecast for the east coast
later this week.
I don't get to tour internet data centers as much as I used to, so I don't
know how well they are doing now.
