Despite upgrades to wireless alerts system, emergency warnings were often ineffective when most needed during the Los Angeles ...

The alert causes phones and tablets to vibrate, read the alert aloud and emit a loud siren-like sound, even if the device is ...

Residents who lived in the west side of Altadena did not receive an evacuation order until 3:25 a.m., which was hours after ...

In the biggest ever alert around 4.5 million people will hear a siren from their phones at 6pm which will also vibrate for up ...

Scots got a rude awakening when the emergency alert which was only meant to sound once lasted into the early hours of Friday ...

The British government is set to test its emergency alert system for the second time, with 87 million devices set to be ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

When the federal government in 2012 launched Wireless Emergency Alerts — a new system that allowed officials to send loud, screeching alarms to cellphones across a large area — many local ...

As Helene's destructive wrath descended on the Southeast, some residents say they never got the warnings they needed to take ...

Disgruntled Three customers have taken to social media to complain they did not recieve an emergency alert that was supposed ...

The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a government service aimed at warning people if there’s a danger to life nearby. The system causes a mobile phone or tablet to make a loud siren-like sound that ...