Aardbevingen #3

zijn dr nog mensen dood?

Ik ben ook weer online, ik had gisteren nog wel Indonesische websites, maar verder kwam ik niet.

Status update
Asian Web Services May Take Weeks to Return to Normal (Update3)

By Tim Culpan and Andrea Tan

Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Chunghwa Telecom Co. and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. may need weeks to resume full Internet and phone services in Asia after earthquakes off Taiwan damaged undersea cables.

Chunghwa, Taiwan's biggest operator, restored partial services to the U.S., Canada and China by rerouting connections. Full access may take two to three weeks, said Leng Tai-feng, Chunghwa's vice president. KDDI Corp., Japan's second-biggest carrier, said repairs typically take ``several weeks to months.''

Companies from HSBC Holdings Plc to DHL Worldwide Express suffered the loss of online and phone services yesterday after a 7.1 magnitude quake and aftershocks struck southern Taiwan. Operators are using back-up systems to help alleviate the bottleneck as parts of Hong Kong, China, Singapore and India remain without Internet and phone access.

``We've just rented a cable ship to help locate and fix the broken undersea cables, and we don't know the extent of the damage at the moment.'' Leng said by telephone today. ``We will have a better idea of the damage when the cables are lifted from the sea.''

The damaged cables include the APCN2 and Sea-Me-We3 lines, Chunghwa said in a statement. Eight STM-1 cables from Okinawa off Japan and four STM-1 cables to Shanghai are acting as backup, Chunghwa said. The company may also use the ST-1 satellite.

First Priority

``Our first priority is to divert traffic. We're not aware of the severity of the damage to the cables,'' said StarHub Ltd. spokesman Eric Loh in Singapore. ``Our engineers have been working round the clock and are doing their best to rectify the matter as soon as possible.''

HSBC's direct-banking customers in Taiwan, who can only access their accounts online, by phone or at automated cash machines, are able to use all services today after connections were cut yesterday, spokeswoman Vinh Tran said. Taipei-based Chunghwa said almost no calls could be made to Southeast Asia.

``All of our connections including those for logistics are out,'' said Apheron Cheng, an information technology manager for DHL's freight forwarding unit in Taipei. ``We will do everything manually including using typewriters.''

Singapore Telecom, France Telecom SA and Pakistan Telecommunication Co. are in a group that own the Sea-Me-We3 cables linking Europe to Asia. Operators in the APCN2 cable network that connects Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore include China Unicom Ltd., StarHub, Telekom Malaysia Bhd. and Telstra Corp.

``We're working very closely with our submarine consortium members to restore services as soon as possible,'' Singapore Telecom spokesman Chia Boon Chong said by telephone.

Phone Calls

Nippon Yusen K.K., Japan's biggest shipping line, normally uses e-mail between its Tokyo headquarters and regional branch in South Korea to set shipping prices. Due to the Internet outages, the company has turned to faxes and phone calls, said spokesman Atsushi Matsumoto.

AT&T Inc., the biggest U.S. phone company, said in a statement today that it is experiencing Internet delays, most notably on traffic from Singapore to Tokyo and Hong Kong to Tokyo. Voice traffic from the U.S. to countries including Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Brunei is also impacted, the San Antonio-based company said.

Both AT&T and Verizon Communications Inc., the second- biggest U.S. phone company, said they are working with partners to restore services. Some Verizon business clients may encounter disruptions, the New York-based company said in a statement.

Multiple Cables

Part of Asia Netcom Corp.'s 19,500-kilometer-long EAC fiber- optic cable was also damaged.

``There are multiple cables passing the vicinity of Taiwan that carry Asian Internet traffic to the U.S. via Japan,'' Wilfred Kwan, chief technology officer of Asia Netcom, said in a statement. ``A large portion of this traffic has been forced to take the southern path via Australia or westward via Europe, to arrive in the U.S.''

Asia had the slowest Web connection with response time at 494 milliseconds, more than double the average 200 milliseconds, according to the latest figures from Internet Traffic Report's site, which monitors the flow of global Internet data.

``Data is more difficult to restore because it is high speed,'' Chunghwa's Leng said. ``We will restore services to some of our enterprise customers'' first, she said. Chunghwa will outsource the repair of the damaged cables to Asia Netcom.

Companies typically use ships to locate and fix broken undersea cables. Engineers use special equipment to lift the cables to the surface, where they are repaired and then returned to the ocean floor, said Alan Mauldin, research director at Washington-based researcher TeleGeography Inc.

`Major' Quake

The main quake, classified as ``major,'' struck at 8:26 p.m. local time on Dec. 26, 10 kilometers (6 miles) under the seabed, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.

The tremors came on the second anniversary of the 2004 Asian tsunami, when a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra unleashed waves that destroyed coastal villages from Indonesia to Sri Lanka, killing more than 220,000 people.

``I can't trade if I don't know the prices,'' said David Leong, who heads the Singapore trading desk at First State Investments, which manages $15 billion in equities in Asia and emerging markets. ``I've put in limit orders to try to minimize the damage, but even then you need to have the basic information.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2sjmv6whYd4&refer=worldwide

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm
Asia current index 41
Avg. Response Time: 497
Avg. Packet Loss: 39 %
Total Routers: 7
Network up: 71 %

[ Bericht 2% gewijzigd door dontcare op 28-12-2006 04:26:37 ]

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Op donderdag 28 december 2006 01:49 schreef Likkende_Lassie het volgende:
zijn dr nog mensen dood?

Zelfmoorden zullen wel omhoog gaan nu bergen asians niet meer op hun MMORPG in kunnen loggen

Ik speel toch vanuit thailand nog steeds een MMOPRG. Maar goed gisteren kon ik amper het internet op het was een grote ramp. Ik ben ook van het internet afhankelijk voor werk. Maar goed ik heb geduld de meeste dingen werken (zij het op een fractie van de normale snelheid).

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Op donderdag 28 december 2006 06:23 schreef niet_links het volgende:
Ik speel toch vanuit thailand nog steeds een MMOPRG. Maar goed gisteren kon ik amper het internet op het was een grote ramp. Ik ben ook van het internet afhankelijk voor werk. Maar goed ik heb geduld de meeste dingen werken (zij het op een fractie van de normale snelheid).

Het is langzamerhand min of meer aan het normaliseren , zal inderdaad nog wel trager zijn omdat het meeste nu via langere verbindingen (bv hongkong-aus-vs-japan ipv hk - japan) gaan en omdat de load op de overgebleven verbinding significant hoger is.
Enige probleem is dat er nu niet nog iets moet gebeuren omdat de redundancy minimaal is.

Zo af en toe lukt het mij dus.. vaker niet dan wel. maar ach.. geen ramp verder.

Bij mij op het werk ligt nog steeds alles plat!
Geen email en geen telefoon buiten Taiwan.

Ze zijn nu in alle haast extra ADSL verbindingen aan het aanleggen naast ons beveiligde netwerk (dat dus plat ligt) zodat we toch mails naar buiten kunnen sturen.

Ik vind het best, want er zitten opeens allemaal lekkere meiden van finance&accounting op ons (nerd)lab omdat wij als enige werkende ADSL verbindingen hebben

_{en hier thuis werkt alles gewoon}

Internet en email doen het weer

geilgeilgeil!

Aah, Somalie.. tja... daar was toch al niet veel.

Hier in Indonesië wordt het langzamerhand weer wat bereikbaarder. Wellicht heeft de rest het opgegeven en is die 17% overgebleven bandbreedte nu dus voor wat minder gebruikers.

Tsunami's zijn een hype. Sinds kerst 2004 heeft elke beving van 2.0 Richter of hoger z'n eigen tsunami. Vroeger had je die niet. Conclusie: een tsunami zit tussen je oren.

Neuh, er zijn sindsdien zat aardbevingen geweest zonder hoor, ik noem een 6.3 op 15 km afstand van hier, zonder tsunami dus.

Die op 300 km afstand was een 7.7, dat was wél met tsunami.. en een flinke ook.

Hey, straks post ik alleen nog maar in DE

wat vanaag?

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Op zaterdag 13 januari 2007 13:12 schreef Likkende_Lassie het volgende:
wat vanaag?

Ja, die 8.3 was vandaag. 05:23 nederlandse tijd, 14:23 lokale tijd.

tvp

T gaat lekker met die mini tsunamitjes

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Small tsunami waves hit Japan after Pacific quake
Bron : Reuters

Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:05am ET14

By Elaine Lies

TOKYO (Reuters) - Small tsunami waves hit northern and eastern Japan on Saturday after a powerful earthquake in the Pacific prompted tsunami warnings in Japan, Russia and Alaska.

Watches were also mounted in Guam, Taiwan, the Philippines and Hawaii, island territories nervous of a repeat of the disaster two years ago when a quake in the Indian Ocean created giant waves that killed 230,000.

A 40-cm (16-inch) wave was reported at Chichijima in the Ogasawara islands, some 1,200 km (750 miles) south of Tokyo, and several smaller waves on Hokkaido and northern Japan, but there were no reports of injuries and no immediate reports of damage.

Evacuation advisories had been issued for tens of thousands of households in Japan but all warnings were canceled at 10:10 p.m.

The USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) put the quake magnitude at 8.2, a "great" tremor, and said its epicentre was in the northern Pacific, 525 km (325 miles) east northeast of Kurilsk, Kurile Islands, and 1,710 km (1,065 miles) northeast of Tokyo.

The same area was struck by a powerful quake in November, prompting evacuations and tsunami warnings, but then too only small waves reached Japan.

An official in Russia's Emergencies Ministry told Reuters the threat of a tsunami had passed.

"Half-past eight, nine o' clock Moscow time was the approximate time the threat of a tsunami was due to appear. That time passed, and the threat did not materialize. Everything is normal," the official said.

RESIDENTS EVACUATED

Japan's Meteorological Agency had said a tsunami as tall as a meter (yard) could hit parts of Hokkaido and smaller waves were likely to hit a wide area of coast, from Hokkaido to Wakayama prefecture on Japan's largest main island of Honshu.

Hokkaido officials urged residents to move to higher ground and fire trucks made the rounds of coastal areas warning about the tsunami threat. There were only moderate tremors in Hokkaido and no immediate reports of casualties.

"We have cars going around the city telling people to evacuate," Takahiro Yamamoto, an official with the Monbetsu city government, told NHK.

Television footage showed a worried resident of Kushiro studying the coast with binoculars from an evacuation center.

"I'm scared to return home," said a woman cradling a child.

Authorities in the Philippines said they issued a tsunami alert "level one", warning residents on the northern and eastern coasts to wait for further information and possible evacuation.

Officials in Taiwan said they would continue to monitor for several hours but did not expect anything to happen.

A tsunami, Japanese for "harbour wave," travels at dizzying speed in the open ocean and, when it approaches shallow water along a coast, slows and swells. In an inlet, it can rise to a towering height very quickly.

In 1993, a tsunami caused by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed about 200 people on the island of Okushiri, off Hokkaido's southwestern coast.

(Additional reporting by Teruaki Ueno, Chikafumi Hodo and Linda Sieg in Tokyo, Rosemarie Francisco in Manila, Donna Chiacu and Yereth Rosen in the United States, and Moscow bureau)

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Op zondag 14 januari 2007 13:53 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Euh,dit is een bericht van September 2003?

, snel gedelete.