Here is what will happen to Iloilo City if 2012 DA14 asteroid hit SM City Iloilo. The orange-shaded part becomes the crater and you are expected to wake up in heaven the next time you open your eyes. The yellow-shaded region would experience intense sound and most likely die from the impact. Outside this shaded region, survival depends on your luck to avoid accidents. While students in PSHSWV (encircled in pink color*) will dismiss the shock wave as drum beatings of Dinagyang warriors and will probably go on working in their assignments and problem sets.
In the event of a nuclear war and the target is Iloilo City, most probably it would strike commercial establishment or the City Government edifice. Isn't it a great consolation perhaps that at least you are not prone to the impact of weapon of mass destruction.
But what if it hits Ingore, La Paz where the site of Iloilo Coal-Fired Power Plant is located?
The figure above shows the impact. PSHSWV is still outside the shaded region but 20-year old glasses will most likely shatter into pieces which cannot withstand the shock wave. The fishes in the aquariums in Academic Building will be set free. The Bakerite's bread glass enclosure and our favorite Mountain Dew bottles will explode. For several days, externs will go home without having post-dismissal snacks. Out of curiosity, you will check if your bottled drinks in dormitory survived the impact only to find out that the energy caused by the impact made it totally disappeared without any traces of broken glass shards.
*More or less this is the original color of Academic Building before.
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