"We believe it was a denial of service attack designed to disrupt access to our site," Ms. DeCourcy said.
When it realised there was potential for a demonstration that could disrupt access, officers decided to remove the exhibition "for operational reasons".
Both reactors shut down automatically because the earthquake, which was centered about 10 miles away, disrupted access to off-site power supplies.
That had typically been the case before Google's action, only now millions more visitors were liable to encounter the disrupted access to an uncensored site.
While stopping short of declaring that President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko's government disrupted access to the sites, the report said state controls were "more pervasive and subtle than outright filtering and blocking".
Page A8 ISRAEL FACES CYBERATTACKS Israel faced a worsening cyberwar as unknown attackers disrupted access to the symbolically strategic Web sites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, the national airline.
Analysts who track Web developments say that the Chinese government may be intentionally disrupting access to Google and other Web services as part of a campaign to tighten Internet controls and censor material.
Gatwick airport is expecting a record number of passengers, around half a million over the long weekend, up 11% on last year, although engineering works will also disrupt access to Gatwick on some routes.
Conflict can affect the ICT infrastructure and disrupt access to a network but there are now many devices suitable for low resources settings (phones with longer battery life, solar chargers etc), and even in the poorest setting, connectivity is on the increase.
Last week, the French president, François Hollande, said the EU should be tough on Britain after the country had apparently chosen a hard Brexit, in which Britain leaves the EU's single market in order to impose controls on immigration, disrupting access to its main trading partner.
