Natural Disasters



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Natural Disasters

Natural disasters can impact the availability of the PSN. The primary impact of disasters such as hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes, tornados, and wind storms on the PSN is disruption and denial of service. Such disasters impact the timeliness and quality of the delivered services. The report ``Natural and Technological Disaster Threats to NS/EP Telecommunications'' provides a description of natural disaster threats and the probability of their occurrence [17].



Karen Olsen
Mon Aug 21 17:57:16 EDT 1995