[EAS] Earthquakes on EAS?

[k7cr]

Interesting that you mentioned that - As I recall, the Internet was alive 
and kicking, put all those telephones were not - All having to do with their 
'concentration ratio'.     Also working with conventional 2-way radio, ham 
radio and, for the most part, radio and TV stations.

A funny item - Right after this Quake I was contacted by AT&T - They wanted 
to lease space at our West Tiger Mt site for a 4 channel, 450, trunked radio 
system for use by their technicians.   Apparently they had always thought 
that they'd use Cellphones to dispatch techs to trouble spots.....That is 
until the Nisqually Quake - The suddenly found out that everyone was trying 
to call home, friends etc on the phone and the whole system crashed.   Give 
this guy a real smile.

My experience in Nola was similar - The Internet and other systems like this 
were amazingly robust.

With all that being said - It appears that the Internet will indeed go down 
with major cable breaks during a quake.  However most of the failures of it 
are due to back hoes etc.

cf


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Mishkind" <barry at oldradio.com>
To: "The EAS Forum - accurate & up-to-date EAS information" 
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Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [EAS] Earthquakes on EAS?


> At 12:06 PM 2/24/2011, k7cr wrote:
>>What you have after one of these is a rather complete communications
>>meltdown.   Land line and Cellular phones become instantly useless,
>>power outages are often widespread and there is a citicial need to
>>get 'official ' info into the hands of the citizens.
>
>        You mean like asking the public to
>        check the Internet for information?
>
>        <g>
>
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