[EAS] Earthquakes on EAS?

[Barry Mishkind]

At 07:52 PM 2/24/2011, k7cr wrote:
>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'.     

        Yes, trying to call on the cell phones 
        (assuming the cell sites weren't down) gets
        real dicey unless you have a 
        And, any Internet service on PDAs get
        realllly slow.

        A large part of the question relates to the
        power grid. It wouldn't help anyone to 
        go home and check the web if there was 
        no power. 

>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.

        ... remember, the power has to be on at both ends.