Actually, I am in the basement I live in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It's in North America, right on top of you, US.
this happens every so often for me in the UK - its as though they shut down some of their datacenters and rely on fewer servers for reasons like upgrading...etc (just a guess) it will come back online soon
i had some issues with msn messenger. it works now my broadband is working like a dial up. maybe because of the earthquake. hope everything will be resolved.