[Outages] Yet Another Quake Rattles Taipei

[Mike Lyon]

A certain Johnny Cash song comes to mind... As long as the earthquakes
stay on the Western side of the Ring of Fire I think we'll be OK .

-Mike


On 1/15/07, Fergie <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:
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> Via The Boston Globe (Reuters).
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> [snip]
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> A moderate earthquake shook Taipei on Tuesday, but it was not immediately
> clear where the quake was centered. There were no immediate reports of
> damage.
>
> The earthquake occurred around 11:10 a.m. local time (0310 GMT), but it was
> unclear where the epicenter was or how strong it was.
>
> Earthquakes occur frequently in Taiwan, which lies on a seismically active
> stretch of the Pacific basin.
>
> One of Taiwan's worst-recorded quakes occurred in September 1999. Measuring
> 7.6 on the Richter scale, it killed more than 2,400 people and destroyed or
> damaged 50,000 buildings.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2007/01/16/quake_rattles_tai
> pei/
>
> It is unclear whether this latest quake had contributed to
> ongoing connectivity issues in the regions still being felt
> by the last series of earthquakes last month.
>
> - - ferg
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>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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