Seattle Earthquake

Wed Feb 28 20:31:14 UTC 2001

At 12:10 PM -0800 2/28/2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
>Cell phones in the area are very congested, and people report difficulty
>making phone calls in and out of the area.  I have not heard if any phone
>companies have imposed network management controls on voice traffic.

I have a Sprint PCS phone, all calls dialed left me with a fast busy
(when I could get carrier) until about about 30 minutes ago.
Now it rings but I get disconnected when the call tries to connect.

Land lines are still working fine, from my perspective. I just spoke
with my brother in Lacy, WA (about 15 miles from epicenter) in a different
area code, so that looks good.

I was also on the phone with someone in San Franciso during the event,
and the line stayed on.

>Folks have reported in from the Westin Building, the main Internet hub
>in the seattle area, that no substantional damage to the building.

We have circuits to UUNet, C&W and Zocalo. We did not see any outage
during the event, and packets are still flowing fine.

The freeways around here are another story though...
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/PugetSoundTraffic/

Regards,

Chris
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