EXERCISE Only

The scenario was chosen to stress the partcipants, not an actual asteroid
impact. It was a fictional scenario. This was only an exercise.

60 meter asteroid impact in New York City, NY (roughly Central Park, NYC)

10,117,016 population directly affected

Estimated unsurvivable area (complete destruction) 32 square miles


Internet Communications

30 Internet exchange points (1 unsurvivable, 8 critical damage, 20 severe
damage, 1 serious damage)

708 Data centers (16 unsurvivable, 229 crtical damage, 446 severe damage,
16 serious:

6,300 Points of presence (1853 unsurvivable, 453 critical damage, 1447
severe damage, 456 serious damage)


Indirect Internet impacts

Mass communications

Social media, misinformation and malinformation

https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/pd/cs/pdc19/