Emergency Alert Experiences

I'm surprised there wasn't a national crisis alert sent out

Was really strange seeing this last night on the news, I was only about 20 miles away. Very curious what the cause was.

I had the exact same thought also because of 9/11. I am in British Columbia and I got a vague provincial emergency alert saying there was no tsunami threat. Amazon Prime was also failing at the same time. Facebook was loading but then the USGS site was failing.

So this wasn't a surprise.Thanks the detailed clarification.I know all these people saying "this happens every week in the midwest", "you only get 10-15 minutes warning" meant well -- but from everything I was reading about the lead-up to this disaster -- something in those retorts just didn't add up.

I didn't hear a siren or get a push notification, I haven't spoken to anyone that did either, quite the failure...

yeah I've ran into bunch of people who were scared for real and drove up to higher elevation in the middle of the night.If you'd search online you could have known quickly there was a negative Tsunami notice, but I get that this is just not feasible for everyone (or everytime).Feel like the severe weather SMS etc are working quite decent, I wish they'd expand that for those sort of things as well (like there was an earthquake, this is what you should do next).The Android

On the morning of January 13th, 2018 I was looking at my phone. When at 8:08am, every cell phone in the entire state simultaneously emitted an emergency alert tone and displayed this exact message:BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.I turned on the radio and FM stations were playing the Emergency Broadcast System's well known emergency tone followed by a computerized voice playing the same message as above on repeat.When faced wit

We sat next to a water tank on the side opposite of Honolulu. No other options. A year ago if we had gotten the same alert it would have just been wtf instead of terror. Hacker angle: we need different levels of emergency alerts. People turn them off because they don't want yet another irrelevant flood warning for some place 20 miles from them or an Amber alert at 3 am. In this particular case the lucky ones had them turned off. 38 minutes to send out correction. Just sayin

This reminds me of when Hawaii had that "false alert" of an incoming nuclear missile and it was supposedly just a user error.

I'm new to US and ipso facto new to weather alerts on my phone. So the first time I saw the alert, kinda shit my pants as I had been in Andaman hours before the 2004 Tsunami