On Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 2:20 p.m. EDT, every TV, radio and cellphone in the United States should blare out the distinctive, jarring electronic warning tone of an emergency alert. It's a test ...

But there was no actual emergency. The message stated the ... Besides a lot of grousing, the alert produced lots of memes on Twitter, some showed alarmed people being awoken from their slumber ...

A nationwide test of the federal emergency alert system started broadcasting just before 2:20 p.m. EDT to cellphones, televisions and radios across the United States. The test occurred ...

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. Starting at approximately 2:20 pm ET on Wednesday ...

County officials announced Friday they are overhauling their emergency alert system after residents across the Los Angeles area continued to receive erroneous emergency alerts that urged them to ...

Cellphones all over the country rang out an emergency alarm Wednesday afternoon as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's national emergency alert test. FEMA, along with the Federal ...

A test of Wireless Emergency Alerts and the Emergency Alert System will be conducted at exactly 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE.