Re: Major California Faults Ready To Rupture | IFLScience

[George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>]

Loma Prieta, very little; the UCSC line was a non-redundant T1 from San Jose BARRNET, and the other leaf nodes off that 
were down.  As I recall the San Jose / SF to LA links were all golden.

Phone service to Santa Cruz was down, then spotty, then up over the course of a day, but every line was jammed with 
people checking in so connect rates sucked.  The UCSC point to point T1 had to be manually repaired I think.  The telco 
lines had alternate routes for calls and made it work, in a bit.

Northridge a few years later more or less flattened a C&W center just about at ground zero.  CRL's pager-happy 24x7 MUD 
customer in Atlanta woke me up a minute later, and our lines through LA (and many others' lines) were down for a while. 
 Dynamic routing was a little less dynamic then; I don't know what others did in great detail.

CIX lists buzzed etc.  I think that predates nanog as a list by a few months, but memory is fuzzy.


George William Herbert
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> On Oct 18, 2014, at 3:42 PM, "Bill Woodcock" <woody () pch net> wrote:
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> Nothing that I recall.  Sean might know better. 
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>                 -Bill
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> > On Oct 19, 2014, at 6:19, "Jay Ashworth" <jra () baylink com> wrote:
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> > How widespread were the effects on backbone communication circuits from those quakes? 
> >
> > > On October 18, 2014 3:22:58 PM EDT, Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net> wrote:
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> > > > On Oct 19, 2014, at 2:20 AM, George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  You should restate the "predates"; I was on console on earthquake.berkeley.edu at the time Loma Prieta let go, 
> > > > using among other things (then) Forumnet (now) ICB in a chat, and one of the immediate damage indications was that 
> > > > everyone at UC Santa Cruz dropped offline.
> > >
> > > …and I was one of those people at UCSC, who had an interesting little adventure driving home to Berkeley the next 
> > > day.
> > >
> > > Also, there are probably people in Northridge and Napa who might dispute your definition of “major,” but yes,a  I 
> > > take your point.
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Baja_California_earthquake
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_South_Napa_earthquake
> > >
> > >                                 -Bill
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