Life Blog: Mother Nature plays and crashes the net?

I flew back to my home country to celebrate Christmas there with my loving family. I had fun although it was just a short vacation, as I need to head back here in SG for the yearend support. Gees :(

Anyhow, just after Christmas a powerful quake (with a magnitude of 7.1) hit southwestern Taiwan, which might have potentially caused tsunami hitting its neighboring countries. Thank God it didn’t happen. It was the same date, Dec 26, when a devastating tsunami hit Phuket two years ago.

Now, Mother Nature played with the internet by crashing through undersea cables. This has disrupted major communication lines in Taiwan and the internet traffic across Asia-Pacific.

With this kind of natural disaster striking from the sea, the impact is not just on land-structures within the affected areas, it can also cause havoc and major loses across different countries especially if comm. lines, power lines, and net connections gets busted. Kinda scary…