The ‘Site’ of the Portuguese Institute of Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA) was inaccessible Monday for a few minutes due to “exceptionally high traffic volume”, after the 4.7 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale registered in the Seixal .
IPMA had to make a “simplified version” available on your website.
“Page visible by direct or redirect access (due to exceptionally high traffic volume or maintenance actions). In the case of redirect, as soon as the situation will allow you to return to the original page, ”he read.
In a note sent Monday to Lusa, the CPC initiative: Citizens for Cybersecurity mourned the situation, which had also been recorded after the magnitude 5.3 earthquake on the Richter scale towards August 26, 2024.
“IPMA’s ‘website’ could not stand the load of users who sought to know what was going on and could not get information from the ‘site’,” he noted.
The CPC warned that IPMA systems “will not be resilient to increase access” when a great earthquake happens.
“Given such an occurrence, the IPMA website would be expected to be the main, most reliable and safe source of information. Unfortunately it wasn’t, ”he said.
The group also indicated that the IPMA could minimize the risk of accessing its ‘site’ with, among other measures, “an optimization of the code”, load tests, more servers to deal with increased traffic and use of Content Delivery Network (CDN) to store copies of content on geographically distributed servers, allowing users to access features from a nearby server.
According to the IPMA, the earthquake had epicenter about 14 kilometers from Seixal, in Setúbal district, and a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale.
It was felt with maximum intensity in Sintra (Lisbon) and Almada (Setúbal) and with less intensity in some municipalities from the Centro region to Algarverevealed the.
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