Underseas cable disruptions can cascade exponentially have dramatic effect on economies

As the amount of cable disruptions increases (i.e., more cables are cut), on the other hand, the amount of data traffic that is lost increases exponentially.³³ For example, an analysis was done of possible disruptions of the cable lines connecting Europe and India.³⁴ It found that although "India is fairly resilient in the case of one or two cable disruptions," nearly seventy percent of traffic to and from India would be lost with just three concurrent cable disruptions.³⁵ Actual data exists that supports similar predictions.³⁶ In 2006, an earthquake along the coast of Taiwan triggered undersea landslides and broke nine undersea cables.³⁷ This event had repercussions extending beyond the country of Taiwan.³⁸ Internet telecommunications linking Southeast Asia were seriously impaired.³⁹ More than six hundred gigabits of capacity went offline, and trading of the Korean won temporarily stopped.⁴⁰ Even a week after the quake, an Internet provider in Hong Kong publicly apologized for continued slow Internet speeds.⁴¹