{"id":1070,"date":"2017-09-04T15:38:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T22:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2020-10-19T09:37:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T16:37:46","slug":"evaluation-of-hurricane-harveys-effects-on-the-internets-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation of Hurricane Harvey&#8217;s Effects on the Internet&#8217;s Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 25, 2017 Hurricane Harvey made landfall in south Texas, causing widespread property damage, displacing more than 30,000 people, and costing more than 45 lives (as of 2017-09-01).<\/p>\n<p>We sympathize with those were hurt by this disaster, and hope for swift recovery for the region.<\/p>\n<p>We recently examined the effects of Hurricane Harvey on the area using Trinocular, our internet outage detection system.&nbsp; Two key results:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1071\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1071\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tx.0.5deg.7612.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1071\" src=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tx.0.5deg.7612-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tx.0.5deg.7612-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tx.0.5deg.7612-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tx.0.5deg.7612-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tx.0.5deg.7612.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trinocular report on outages in Texas after Hurricane Harvey (on 2017-08-28t03:32Z)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We see that landfall was followed by&nbsp;<em>widespread Internet outages<\/em>&nbsp;in the Corpus Christi area, with&nbsp;<em>40% or more home networks<\/em>&nbsp;dropping off the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>We see that over the following days,&nbsp;<em>network outages grew in the Houston area<\/em>, with many networks dropping off the Internet. However, the&nbsp;<em>fraction of networks lost in Houston<\/em>&nbsp;was much smaller than in the Corpus Christi area.<\/p>\n<p>More details are on <a href=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/outage\/ani\/harvey\/index.html\">our Hurricane Harvey web page<\/a>.&nbsp; We will update that page as we get more data in.<\/p>\n<p>The dataset including Hurricane Harvey will be&nbsp;<code class=\"highlighter-rouge\">internet_outage_adaptive_a29all-20170702<\/code>&nbsp;and will be released in October 2017. Until the full data is released, we have a preliminary dataset through August 2017 available on request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 25, 2017 Hurricane Harvey made landfall in south Texas, causing widespread property damage, displacing more than 30,000 people, and costing more than 45 lives (as of 2017-09-01). We sympathize with those were hurt by this disaster, and hope for swift recovery for the region. 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