[76761] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Any net disruptions from Indonesia quake / Tsunami?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Sun Dec 26 17:14:25 2004
In-Reply-To: <200412262139.iBQLdcSU024443@kw.retro.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, gherbert@kw.retro.com
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 17:13:52 -0500
To: George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 26 Dec 2004, at 16:39, George William Herbert wrote:
> I haven't seen any reports, but a 8.9 and widespread tsunami
> activity in the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal seem likely to
> have caused undersea cable problems.
I'm no expert, but I'd imagine that any under-sea damage would be
isolated to shallow approach to shore, and that the cable would be well
below the wave action while the tsunami was in deep water. Cables are
generally trenched pretty deep on the approach to shore as protection
against dragging anchors, but I don't know what protection that would
give against the undertow from a 10m-high wave.
I'd expect the most serious network damage to be in simple
infrastructure above water (power, overhead cables).
> Suresh, someone mentioned you were in the affected area,
> you seem to still be with us from your spam thread response,
> which is a relief.
Suresh is in Madras, I think. The BBC says Madras was "particularly
badly hit".
Joe
