We just had a 5.2 magnitude earthquake at 10pm, it was centered SW of
Gilroy, CA. Cingular's network was peaked for a few minutes after the call,
presumably as everyone called friends/family. No reports of phone/power
outages yet.
Sameer
KTVU-TV reported some local phone service outages in San Jose. Amateur radio for Santa Clara County, CA (W6ASH linked with other repeaters) turned up no damage reports, and the net closed with nothing reported beyond some new cracks in people's driveways.
-K6JXH
There's something on sfgate.com about phone service being out in SJ? I
couldn't call out on cingular but could receive calls.
John
I live about 3 mi from the epicenter and our main NOC is about 9 miles. As far
as I can tell, we didn't even drop a packet.
Some stuff fell of the shelves and the cats panicked as expected.
Reference my previous note, Broadwing called about 10 minutes after the quake and
told me they had isolated the problem and expected repair within the hour. It
was fixed on schedule so the phone people were BAU.
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