Ting detects all power interruptions. Importantly, we view any interruption of power as an 'outage' no matter the duration, whether it is momentary or lasts for hours. This means our information is much more comprehensive than that of an electric utility. We report on both 'formal’ outages – power outages longer than 5 minutes (what utilities define as an "outage"), and momentary events – power interruptions under 5 minutes that are not reported by utilities but are still disruptive.