According to the region and severity of stormy conditions, these storms may be referred to as typhoons or tropical cyclones. Tornado and Hurricanes can create stress and dramatic issue for data center. For example, what happened in hurricane Katrina 2005 made huge impact on datacenters that are located in New Orleans. Prior to hurricane Katrina, the department of Agriculture moved its data center from New Orleans to Kansa City, Missouri [18]. Tornado do accrue where a thunderstorm is possible, and there is history of places have been struck with tornados and Hurricanes [19]. Still hurricanes and tornedos are rare because they typically get weak at the cost line of weak Africa and travel west of the Atlantic Ocean. C. Earthquake Earthquakes occur every day around the world, but large ones and potential for future large quakes. These large earthquakes need to be taken into data center site location consideration. The west coast of Africa consider to be safer form these quakes comparing to other continents. There are countries in the west coast of Africa got hit by earthquakes, such as, Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa. In general, Africa as a continent has lower number of earthquakes comparing to other continents, South Africa is the spotlight of earthquakes in the continent follow by Egypt [19]. The following figure shows the major earthquakes in the world and clearly showing that Africa is totally out of the spot. Figure 7 shows the major earthquakes in the world since 1900. [20] D. Tsunami
According to the region and severity of stormy conditions, these storms may be referred to as typhoons or tropical cyclones. Tornado and Hurricanes can create stress and dramatic issue for data center. For example, what happened in hurricane Katrina 2005 made huge impact on datacenters that are located in New Orleans. Prior to hurricane Katrina, the department of Agriculture moved its data center from New Orleans to Kansa City, Missouri [18]. Tornado do accrue where a thunderstorm is possible, and there is history of places have been struck with tornados and Hurricanes [19]. Still hurricanes and tornedos are rare because they typically get weak at the cost line of weak Africa and travel west of the Atlantic Ocean. C. Earthquake Earthquakes occur every day around the world, but large ones and potential for future large quakes. These large earthquakes need to be taken into data center site location consideration. The west coast of Africa consider to be safer form these quakes comparing to other continents. There are countries in the west coast of Africa got hit by earthquakes, such as, Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa. In general, Africa as a continent has lower number of earthquakes comparing to other continents, South Africa is the spotlight of earthquakes in the continent follow by Egypt [19]. The following figure shows the major earthquakes in the world and clearly showing that Africa is totally out of the spot. Figure 7 shows the major earthquakes in the world since 1900. [20] D. Tsunami
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