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- From: ddern@world.std.com (Daniel P Dern)
- Subject: Re: EARTHQUAKES/INTERNET
- Message-ID: <C19Gvs.7AG@world.std.com>
- Summary: the Internet earthquake detectors, almost
- Keywords: ceramic frogs with balls in their mouths
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1993Jan21.222538.11991@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:11:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.222538.11991@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mperlman@nyx.cs.du.edu
- (Marshal "Airborne" Perlman) writes:
- >How can I obtain info re: earthquakes via internet?
-
- FYI, here's some earthquake info from comp.protocols.tcp-ip, from the
- July 1990 discussion that kinda drifted from the discussion of a
- Network Temperature Protocol. Perhaps it's time for a frog MIB? Enjoy...
-
- (quotes start here)
-
- I'm sure Dave Mill can describe the use of NTP as an earthquake predictor
- in another message. This would be another important factor in picking
- a location for a holiday.
-
- louie
-
- From: Mills@udel.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: Network Temperature Protocol
- Message-ID: <9007221359.aa29945@huey.udel.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 90 17:59:36 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
- Lines: 16
-
- Folks,
-
- Louie refers to an incident where an NTP primary time server, perched almost
- atop the Loma Pietra fault, mysteriously abandonded chime a couple of minutes
- BEFORE the recent quake. We were tempted to investigate application of NTP
- as earthquake predictor, until we learned that a fortuitous power failure
- within BARRNET happened to quench its chime. Now, we are concentrating on
- the nature of that precipitous failure as a possible earthwuake predictor.
- Meanwhile, on the night of the quake, NTP turned out to be a useful monitoring
- tool and provided much comfort that at least computers in the area, much less
- people, were safe and that circuits out the Pacific were still operation.
- Actually, what that was doing was confirming that the NASA Ames massive
- single point of failure was still up. A UPS failure there later in the
- evening conked out the entire Pacific.
-
- Dave
-
- (The discussion then segued into using network TIME protocol to determine
- the temperature by from clock drift rates, which may or may not have
- been more useful. DPD)
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