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Cyclone Simon: did the internet go down?

The internet held

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

Mexico

OrangeGDACS alert (peak)
1country affected
Oct 7 – Oct 16dates (UTC)
9 daysduration

Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 250 km/h)

The internet in Mexico

Hosts reachable, from a day before to three days after

Outage history
Oct 8Oct 15closest pass0%50%100%

No national, regional (within 400 km) or power outage started in Mexico in this window.

Our probes started during this window; IODA covers the hours before: no drop.

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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