Animations of Internet Outages

Current outage animations:

  • Hurricane Ida (2021): dataset:
  • The Aug. 2020 CenturyLink Outage: On 2020-08-30, an outage at CenturyLink had widespread effects across the U.S. (Dataset: Trinocular near-real-time outages; batch dataset is pending.)
  • Hurricane Florence (2018): dataset: pending This dataset shows the effects of Hurricane Florence on the Carolinas.
  • Hurricane Harvey (2017): dataset: internet_outage_adaptive_a29all_harvey-20170701. This dataset shows the effects of Hurricane Harvey on the Texas coast.
  • Aug. 2014 US Outage: a subset of the 2014q4 animation, slowed down to illustrate the Aug. 2014 Time Warner outage affecting 11 million customers. Dataset: internet_outage_adaptive_a17all-20140701. First shown at DHS Showcase, Dec. 2014.
  • 2014q4 Outages: dataset: internet_outage_adaptive_a17all-20140701. First shown at DHS Showcase, Dec. 2014.
  • Hurricane Sandy (2014): dataset: internet_outage_survey_it50j-20121027, based on internet_address_survey_reprobing_it50j-20121027 with Trinocular-like post-processing. First shown at DHS Showcase, Dec. 2014.

For more information, see our outage webpage.