Nuclear monitoring data points to undersea landslide as cause of West Africa internet outage

Nuclear monitoring data points to undersea landslide as cause of West Africa internet outage

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2025 Evidence from a global nuclear monitoring system indicates that an underwater landslide likely severed subsea communications cables, disrupting internet connectivity in several West African nations throughout March 2024. A team from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography analyzed hydroacoustic data from hydrophones maintained by the International Monitoring System under the Com

The hydroacoustic signals captured by the world's international nuclear monitoring system suggest that an underwater landslide may have broken communication cables and disrupted Internet traffic in West African countries for several weeks in March 2024. The researchers used data collected by hydrophones installed by the system [...]