Emergency Alert System
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emergency-alert-system-170-19143231
title:
Emergency Alert System
text:
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. Informally, Emergency Alert System is sometimes conflated with its mobile phone counterpart Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), a different but related system. However, both the EAS and WEA, among other systems, are coordinated under the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Method of emergency broadcasting in the United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System
date created:
2003-01-28T02:25:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T04:20:20Z
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13
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