Can Your Data Center Survive an Earthquake? How to Know Your Risk
Unlike the seasonal disasters that strike “tornado alley” or the U.S. Gulf Coast, in earthquake country, it’s always earthquake season. Earthquakes have no preferred time of day, tidal stage, or (as yet) predictable indicator. We can, however, estimate their probabilities. In Northern California, for instance, there is a 63% chance of a magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurring in the next 30 years, a 67% chance in Southern California, and a 99.7% chance in California as a whole. U.S. earthquake risk is not limited to California.
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