[steakejjs]

Would a possible example of a large magnitude event be the 2012 Virginia Derecho[1] ?

Does anyone remember this evening as a day of large outages? I wasn't able to experience the event as an internet user having lost power. This is the type of event I would EXPECT to get a big magnitude.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2012_North_American_derech...

[genmon]

that's the kind of thing. the one that comes to mind for me is the 9 hour AT&T long distance outage of 1990: http://www.mit.edu/hacker/part1.html -- it's these kind of emergent outages that really interest me