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2. Emergency Alert System - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Did your cell phone make a screeching noise today? Here’s why

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   Starting at approximately 2:20 pm ET on Wednesday, the federal government began conducting a nationwide test of its Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts. The EAS portion of the ...

4. Emergency alert test – live: Government reveals why phone ...

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   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 go out at 3pm, many mobile ...

5. National Emergency Message - Wikipedia

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   National Emergency Messages are treated the same as any other message transmitted over the Emergency Alert System, except that stations are required to relay them. [2] When a message is received, the receiver is to open an audio channel to the originating source until the End of Message (EOM) tones are received.

6. Emergency Broadcast System - Wikipedia

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   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 .

7. Here's why FEMA sent an emergency alert to your ... - AOL

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   Cellphones, TVs and radios across the U.S. simultaneously blared out an emergency alert today. Here's what to know and why it happened.

8. Here’s why some Americans didn’t receive the national ...

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   A text message was sent to every TV, radio and mobile phone in the US at around 2.20pm ET on Wednesday as the federal government tested its Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts.

9. Integrated Public Alert and Warning System - Wikipedia

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   Architecture of IPAWS. The program is organized and funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security. [4] The system allows for alerts to be originated by Federal, State, local and tribal officials, and subsequently disseminated to the public using a range of national and local alerting systems including EAS, CMAS and NWR. [5]