Emergency Alert System



"Oh great. the Grand Alliance has made the Emergency Alert System from being a national warning system in the United States into an international warning system, thanks to the United Nations. It looks like António Guterres has implemented the total expansion and overhaul of the EAS system finally. I bet something's lurking and/or fishy around here. Might be the start of World War III."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Home Sweet Home

The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States put into place on January 1, 1997 (approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in November 1994),[1] when it replaced the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), which in turn replaced CONELRAD. It is jointly coordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The EAS regulations and standards are governed by the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC.

As with its predecessors, the system is primarily designed to allow the President to address the country via all radio and television stations, in the event of a national emergency. Despite this, the system nor its predecessors have never actually been used in this matter, due to the ubiquity of news coverage in these situations. In practice, it is more commonly used to distribute information regarding imminent threats to public safety, such as severe weather situations (including flash floods and tornadoes), and AMBER Alerts of child abductions.

Authorized organizations are able to disseminate and coordinate emergency alerts and warning messages through EAS and other public systems by means of IPAWS.[2] EAS messages are transmitted primarily via terrestrial and satellite radio and television (including broadcast and multichannel television), which are required to participate in the system.[3] Wireless Emergency Alerts are a secondary system using Cell Broadcast to relay public alerts to cellphones.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, it was used for alerting all populations of the world (and later on, many worlds) when any event happens, as implemented by the United Nations and its Secretary-General, António Guterres.