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Today was the day for the US government’s big emergency alert drill, which sent a test message to every TV, radio and cell phone in the nation.
April 23, 2023 at 12:41 PM. Millions of people across the country received the first-ever nationwide test of the government ’s new emergency alert system today. While the alert was scheduled to ...
Today electronic devices nationwide, including cellphones, TVs and radios, blared out the jolting warning sounds of an emergency alert accompanied by a message. But don’t be alarmed, it was only ...
The Emergency Alert System ( EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite and broadcast television and AM, FM and satellite radio. Informally, Emergency Alert System is sometimes conflated with its mobile phone ...
An example of a Wireless Emergency Alert on an Android smartphone, indicating a Tornado Warning in the covered area. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA, formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), and prior to that as the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN)), [1] is an alerting network in the United States designed to disseminate emergency alerts to mobile devices such as ...
Emergency in Water Transportation of the United States. Ended. Franklin Roosevelt. March 6, 1933 [9] September 14, 1978 [10] Economic. Proclamation 2039 [11] Declaring Bank Holiday. Declared a bank holiday from March 6 through March 9, 1933, using the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 as a legal basis. [9]
Emergency Alert System. The Emergency Broadcast System ( EBS ), sometimes called the Emergency Action Notification System ( EANS ), was an emergency warning system used in the United States. It was the most commonly used, along with the Emergency Override system. It replaced the previous CONELRAD system and was used from 1963 to 1997, at which ...
A nationwide test of the emergency and wireless alert systems will be conducted Wednesday at 2:20 p.m. ET, when a message will be sent to all cellphones, TVs and radios.