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Cyclone Isaias: did the internet go down?

The internet held

No national or nearby regional internet outage in United States started within 24 hours after the storm passed.

United States

OrangeGDACS alert (peak)
1country affected
Oct 6 – Oct 11dates (UTC)
5 daysduration

Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 194 km/h)

The internet in United States

This was before our own probes started (16 October 2026). IODA saw no drop below 80% of normal within 24 hours.

How we check

Every 5 minutes we test thousands of servers and routers in every country from our own probes, combined with IODA. For an earthquake we look at the 72 hours after it, for a storm at the day before to two days after it came closest. We list every national outage, every regional outage within 400 km, and every large power outage.

An outage counts as a disruption when it reached "partial outage" or "blackout" and started within 24 hours. That it started then does not prove the disaster caused it, but a nationwide drop right after a big quake rarely has another reason.

Disaster data: GDACS (European Commission JRC, UN OCHA). GDACS report

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