The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is conducting the test to check whether the Emergency Alert System ... the cell phone alert to be “accompanied by a unique tone and vibration ...

Brace yourselves: your cell phone will play another sudden, loud alarm at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s national test of its alert system through all ...

Cellphones will get the warning as a tone, a vibration and as a text message: “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.” Phones in which the menu is ...

The purpose of the two-part test “is to ensure that the systems ... on the phone, and to “help ensure that these alerts are accessible to the entire public, including people with disabilities, the ...

FEMA said in addition to tones and vibration, a message will appear on phones saying “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.” Phones that have ...

The UK conducted its first test of a new emergency alert service on Sunday, with millions of mobile phones emitting a loud alarm and vibrating. The national system, modelled on similar schemes in ...

the alert system only went to cellphones, said Dana Whyte, spokesperson for MSU's Department of Police and Public Safety. The upgrade went into effect May 1. While some campus landline phones will ...

“THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.” FEMA said the message will read in English or Spanish, depending on language settings on the ...

“THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.” FEMA said the message will read in English or Spanish, depending on language settings on the ...