- Magnitude 8.8 The earthquake hits the east coast of Russia
- The epicenter is close to two local submarine cables, which remain operational
- The Pacific is full of other cables, but they could be safe from interruptions
After the sixth largest earthquake in registered history, it reached the eastern coast of Russia, experts have quickly ensured that the critical submarine cables used for the Internet and data transfer are still safe.
With a qualification of magnitude 8.8, Tsunami warnings are now shared throughout the North Pacific region, including Japan and the West Coast of the United States, with waves that already arrive in Hawaii, and Japanese low coastal cities are urged to evacuate.
However, so far there have been no effects on critical infrastructure, with submarine cables that remain intact.
The Russian earthquake did not cause interruptions on the Internet
Until now, communication facilities, cloud computing services or joint manufacturing plants have not reported switches, with the tastes of AWS, Azure and Google Cloud still running normally.
Rostelecom de Russia has not informed any interruption to its underwater cable that connects Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky with Anadyr, despite its location near the earthquake site.
The 10 -point polar submarine cable that is currently under construction, which also connects the Russian locations and also located near the epicenter of the earthquake, does not seem to have been interrupted, although the earthquake could cause delays in the project.
Although there is no other cable traffic near the epicenter, the Pacific is full of main underwater cable networks, including Topaz and Jupiter of Google, which is partially owned by AWS and goal.
Even so, submarine cables are generally buries in trenches during the first kilometers on the high seas. Once they are exposed at the bottom of the ocean, they are deep enough not to be affected mainly by the tsunami water columns. The greatest risk is submarine landslides activated by the earthquake that threaten to break the cables, as seen when nine Asian and Pacific cables broke into the Taiwan earthquake of magnitude 7.0 of 2006.
Hyperscalers also make use of multiple availability areas, which means that even if Russia’s earthquake affects an area, traffic could be redirected in a matter of hours.
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