Facebook Debuts 'Im Safe' Tool for Natural Disasters
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While physical damage to infrastructure can cause problems, the vast majority of problems encountered during a natural disaster aren't due to that at all. The major thing that tends to bring cellular networks and the internet to their collective knees after a disaster is the incredible amount of network traffic. With everyone trying to notify everyone they know that they survived and are ok; you have far more traffic than the network is able to accommodate. This kind of short term spike of usage by an incredible magnitude is why you often see temporary cell sites and other temporary improvements done before the Super Bowl and other major events.
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