: No official response from IBM.

: (excerpt) "With regard to natural disasters, Hong Kong is relatively a secure place. Based on the information from the Hong Kong Observatory, most of the earthquake epicenters that caused felt tremors in Hong Kong were situated outside the territory in areas near Taiwan, the northern part of the South China Sea, Heyuan and Yangjiang of Guangdong, the border between Guangdong and Fujian, Beibu Wan and the Philippines etc. Since 1979, there were just six locally felt tremors with epicenters located in Hong Kong, at Maipo (once in 1983) and over the sea east of Lantau Island (twice in 1982 and three times in 1995 respectively). All these tremors were of Intensity below V(5). Therefore, Hong Kong is chosen as a place to host one of the Microsoft's supporting data centers, with Singapore as the primary data center in this region."

-- Joelle Woo, director, business and marketing organization, Microsoft Hong Kong