Get ready for a little chaos on Wednesday afternoon, because a test of the national Wireless Emergency Alerts will happen between 2:20 and 2:50 p.m. EDT. (That’s 11:20 to 11:50 a.m. on the West Coast.

Your cell phone or the cell phone of someone you’re near may sound a loud alarm this afternoon. Don’t panic. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the Federal ...

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 ...

The US government’s Emergency Alert System (EAS) is, unfortunately, probably best known for the false alarm in Hawaii back in January. Residents of the island were woken by a loud alarm sound and a ...

The nationwide Emergency Alert System (EAS), which sends alerts through mobile phones, will be tested later this year. The EAS causes phones and tablets to vibrate, read the alert aloud and emit a ...

EVERY phone in the UK will be pinged with an ‘emergency alert’ that triggers a loud siren for 10 seconds this year. The alarm is a test of the Governments' emergency alert system, which first launched ...