Quake in Taiwan Cripples Internet

judebx writes "Powerful quakes measuring 7 on the Richter scale have struck southern Taiwan and caused damage to undersea communication cables, disrupting telephone and internet services in several parts of Asia. The quake comes on the second anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, and triggered tsunami warnings. Human casualties, however, have been low so far."

Comments

Re:What is the sound of one spam clapping?

[1u3hr]

Oh, right! I've got almost everything that might come down that pipe null-routed anyway.

I speak for everyone in Hong Kong, and say, fuck off and die.

95% of the world's spam is paid for by American spammers. (See the ROKSO list.) I get flooded by American spam and then get blocked by racist assholes like you.

I've been offline all day and while my email (hosted by Yahoo) is still dead somehow I can access Slashdot.

Maps of currently in-use undersea cables

[THESuperShawn]

So I went about researching this myself (thanks for the input so far) and found a few good links...

Although the layout of this page is awful (and they beg for click-fraud abuse), it does show a few really good maps of the current undersea cable infrastructure. Pretty neat stuff.

http://eyeball-series.org/cable-eyeball.htm