East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

Have anyone seen or feel any effect of this on their network?

We had some cell tower issues here in NJ.

chris

Yes.

Users going to twitter, IRC, Facebook, Google+, etc., are WAY WAY WAY up. Ditto news sources.

Oh, and of course, XKCD. :slight_smile:

5.9 Epicenter in Virginia:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usc0005ild.php#summary

Seeing slow internet access out of ASHBURN, VA data centers. Verizon and Global Crossing. Carriers circuits probably overwhelmed with voice/data.
I do not have any info on outages or damages related to earthquake.

Just an observation:

Sprint 3G data and Texts are sporadically working here in Reston, VA. 4G
wimax is fine.

T-Mobile is completely out in Bethesda, MD. No voice or data signal whatsoever.

Tmobile is back up in Ashburn, VA