If You think a Few Hours Downtime is Bad....

I was just thinking about earthquakes. The probability that a major Earthquake could hit the SF bay Area before 2032 Years is 62%.. You might think so what, that's a 50-50-ish chance in the next quater century. The probability increases with time, but there could be like a 1 in 25 chance (?) that Linden Labs (and the facility where SL servers are located) could get hit by an earthquake of the same magnitude as the the 1989 tremor that knocked out power and telephone for days in the next year. It is nestled right between two active faults. Could you go without SL for days? >.< And what if our favorite Lindens got hurt in a tsunami? I hope they have a lifeboat at linden labs. ^_^;;;

Food for thought.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, now we'll have mass hysteria!

ACK NO!

I can't even deal with a 20 minute black-out. >.<

Pathetic I know...but hey...it's currently my lifeline.

It's TOO hot out to do anything too. Fakkin' aye...111 degrees today in N. Armpit, CA.

They won't need a lifeboat - SF will not sink into the ocean. While SF may have been out of power for 3 days, most of the bay area was without power for hours, not days. I didn't even lose power at my place, though my phone was out for 2 days.

Most good data centers have disaster plans on the books and have standby infrastructure in the event of a truly serious event.

I don't think you really need to worry about any major tsunami activity after an earthquake along any of the faults around San Francisco, as the type of fault is not the type that generates the kind of devastating tsunami we saw in the Indian Ocean in 2004 and again this year. There might be small tsunami events generated by underwater landslides, but those would probably be similar to what we saw in '89 - less than 5ft.

My HQ has been out for 5 days now at work.. Boy has it been FUN.

I'd better make the CKC shop building earthquake-proof. Heh.

Musuko.

From what I read it was less than 3 ft. ^_^; My friend who lives in Hayward (whose father is a disaster preparedness specialist) say that last earthquare was horribily over-dramafied. I just think too much.

There's a major subduction fault off the coast of Washington state that could produce a major tsunami (and has in the past). I'm not sure how it would effect the California coast.

So I have been to the co-location facility, and really, they have engineered it to dedal with a major quake, if a quake is big enough to affect that facility, most of us will not be thinkiung about second life.

I think something like that would have little effect on Ca. An earthquake in Japan or the eastern pacific would be worse for Ca.

Good to see that there are so many earthquake and seismic experts in the forums.

I'll merely mention 1906, 28 ft displacement and earthquake soil liquefaction in areas reclaimed from the bay.

I have to say I do wonder at times about the foresight of all the hi-tec companies clustering in the area. After all, that is a lot of room in the US, surely they could have found somewhere a little less risky?

LOL where? Kansas is twister country. The south? hurricane alley. The northeast? blizzards constantly.

Building construction still does not change the groung which buildings are built on. The reclaimed ground still liquifies in a major earthquake. Most buildings don't float very well.


Hmmm, build an ark.........

I wonder if ping time would improve if we moved LL to say Atlanta?
Wait did I say that out loud?

Under ground salt mine in Utah, old missle silo.

I think the best way is to put multipue server farms at distant locations. That way if something drops the first one (fire, flood, earthquake...) the second one picks up the load.

Yes, I've often felt that the American continent isn't the most friendly environment on earth.
Still, from what I've been told, New Mexico and Arizona aren't too bad as far as weather/volcano/earthquake/hurricane/tornado threats are concerned. There must be a few other areas too?

maxxx Drebin ] Underground salt mine in Utah, old missle silo.

I think the best way is to put multipue server farms at distant locations. That way if something drops the first one (fire, flood, earthquake...) the second one picks up the load.

Been there, done it, it seems to work too. But having servers in a single location in bloody Florida a few years back was pretty stupid in the first place I have to admit. Now I'm in Connecticut and Arizona.

True that. The co-location facility is where I would want to be during an earthquake in San Francisco. That place is amazing.

Most buildings in the bay area are not built on landfill. All of the tall skyscrapers that are on landfill are anchored to the bedrock below, which is why in 1989 none of the tall towers suffered any significant damage. The strucutres in the Marina district, which are also on landfill, suffered damage due to construction techniques and the amplified shaking caused by the landfill, but not from liquefaction. The apartment structures that collapsed did not have sufficient lateral bracing on the first floor (which is where the garages are/were) and so the supporting walls buckled.

There was some liquefaction, but none of the buildings sank or floated away.

Two words: Static Electricity. I get into trouble as a computer professional when I have to travel. There is next to no static electricity in the SF bay area and it is always a ... shock, to have to re-learn static electricity safety.

Awww ... 2032? Now we'll never get the Havok update

Well, tbh, the building suffering damage shouldn't be the major concern. Loss of power for days should be. What kind of secondary mechanisms does the server facility posess to provide power in cause of critical failure?

I donna wanna die in SL from starvation ^^