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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. Wireless Emergency Alerts - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Emergency population warning - Wikipedia

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   The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) program of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency is an attempt to integrate multiple public warning technologies into a coordinated nationwide "system of systems" using the Common Alerting Protocol. Systems targeted for inclusion in IPAWS include the Emergency Alert System, the ...

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

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   This message, which ran for approximately one minute, stated: “This is a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, covering the United ...

6. 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.

7. Why everyone’s phone will alarm at 2:20 pm ET on Wednesday

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   This message, which will run for approximately one minute, will state: “This is a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, covering the ...

8. National Emergency Message - Wikipedia

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   A National Emergency Message (SAME code: EAN), formerly known until 2022 as an Emergency Action Notification, is the national activation of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) used to alert the residents of the United States of a national or global emergency such as a nuclear war or any other mass casualty situation.

9. Integrated Public Alert and Warning System - Wikipedia

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   The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) is an architecture that unifies the United States' Emergency Alert System, National Warning System, Wireless Emergency Alerts, and NOAA Weather Radio, under a single platform. IPAWS was designed to modernize these systems by enabling alerts to be aggregated over a network and distributed to ...