I'm super curious to hear technical info how this kind of widescale network partition comes to happen. It doesn't seem based on geography since for about 30 min

I'm super curious to hear technical info how this kind of widescale network partition comes to happen. It doesn't seem based on geography since for about 30 minutes I was unable to reach us-east from MonkeyBrains in SF, but had no trouble from my Dallas, TX VPS.