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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.
Millions of people around the country received an emergency alert text on their phones at 3pm today. Some received the text early, while others said they did not receive the text at all. Watch as ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began sending notifications to phones in a nationwide emergency alert system test at around 2:18 p.m.
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 cell phones using Cell ...
The Mobile Emergency Alert System (M-EAS) is an information distribution system that utilizes existing digital television spectrum and towers to provide information in emergency situations using rich media. The system can push text, web pages, and video to compatible equipment, such as mobile DTV devices.
Cellphones, TVs and radios across the U.S. simultaneously blared out an emergency alert today. Here's what to know and why it happened.
The warning can replace a Civil Emergency Message, Fire Warning, or other warnings when required. Weather radio receivers, EAS Equipment boxes, and TV scrolls will display EVI alerts as immediate evacuation, and any text-to-speech voices from the EAS boxes will read the alert as "immediate evacuation" rather than "evacuation immediate". [1]
The iPhone 14, 15 and 16 models are all capable of connecting to satellites, but iOS 18 is required to send text messages, according to Apple. To make sure your phone is updated, go to Settings ...