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The Resilience of Internet Infrastructures in Pacific Northwest to Earthquakes [pdf]

On the Resilience of Internet Infrastructures in Pacific Northwest to Earthquakes Juno Mayer, Valerie Sahakian, Emilie Hooft, Douglas Toomey, Ramakrishnan Durairajan University of Oregon Abstract. The U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW) is one of the largest Internet infrastructure hubs for several cloud and content providers, research networks, colocation facilities, and submarine cable deployments. Yet, this region is within the Cascadia Subduction Zone and currently lacks a quantitative understanding of the resilience of the Internet infrastructure due to seismic forces. The main goal of this work is to assess the resilience of critical Internet infrastructure in the PNW to shaking from earthquakes. To this end, we have developed a framework called ShakeNet to understand the levels of risk that ...

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