Quakes and connectivity

Tonight I'm going through a lot of bookmarks on this year's China browsing. Oddly, there's been a bunch of sites that haven't thrown a 404, but just sit there not connecting. Now I'm connecting the dots: we heard on the radio that there was an earthquake in Taiwan, and some of the Asian blogs are mentioning possible connectivity problems (even Heather in Thailand mentioned it). I guess it's not too much of a leap to connect those dots.