"our Amazon AWS servers were all in Virginia, right near the epicenter." Very little is near the epicenter. The epicenter was in one of the least populated ar

"our Amazon AWS servers were all in Virginia, right near the epicenter." Very little is near the epicenter. The epicenter was in one of the least populated areas of the entire state. Here's a map: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake/082311a http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake... There are probably less than 50,000 people living inside the yellow circle and there are no cities. Amazon's data centers are in northern Virginia. This earthquake did not happen in northern Virginia, it happened in central Virginia, between Richmond and Charlottesville, about 60-90 miles away from northern Virginia.