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Sometimes however, even in cases cellular communications are available, or have been partially restored, internet access itself is not available via mobile data routing. This is due to the 'backhaul' connections being broken or impaired. In both Haiti's 2010 earthquake and Eastern Japan's 2011 earthquake, submarine cables were severely damaged, cutting off large populations from the Internet<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1550147719829960#table1-1550147719829960</ref>. This serves as an example where the use of Internet-dependent remote 3rd party applications or services on phones is not always to be relied upon. | Sometimes however, even in cases cellular communications are available, or have been partially restored, internet access itself is not available via mobile data routing. This is due to the 'backhaul' connections being broken or impaired. In both Haiti's 2010 earthquake and Eastern Japan's 2011 earthquake, submarine cables were severely damaged, cutting off large populations from the Internet<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1550147719829960#table1-1550147719829960</ref>. This serves as an example where the use of Internet-dependent remote 3rd party applications or services on phones is not always to be relied upon. | ||
Fuel is often in short supply during disaster events. It is thus plausible that the large diesel tanks at the base of many large cell sites used for generating backup power may be drained to fuel vehicles or electricity generators for other needs. | |||
== Failure of mobile phones during disaster events == | == Failure of mobile phones during disaster events == | ||