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[[File:tor warn 2789.jpg|thumb|400px|[[Oh Crap]]! [[Death From Above]]!]]
The Emergency Broadcast is a means of public warning and public annoyance alike. Hearing an '''Emergency Broadcast''' warning of actual danger may lead to [[Oh Crap]], [[Mass "Oh Crap"]], the need for [[Bring My Brown Pants|one's brown pants to be brought]] - in that way it may be the ultimate [[Brown Note]]. On the other hand, a test or a warning of something that doesn't affect you (e.g. a missing child warning, a flood when you're on high ground, a tsunami when you're 100 miles inland) may be a [[Berserk Button]] and lead to frustration with [[Crying Wolf]]. Another frequent frustration is when an actual alert has such horrible sound quality you can't understand what's being said. In the worst disasters? Broadcasters may have already broken away from their routine entertainment or news programming with a [[We Interrupt This
In many countries, [[Atomic Hate]] was the primary reason for the system's creation, and it eventually (and thankfully) ended up never being used for that purpose and being used for many others.
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Also, the Japanese test signal is not entirely standardized across broadcasting stations (even stations within a given city like will differ; examples abound on [[YouTube]]) except for the emergency chime, a video/audio description of when a real broadcast would be activated, an emergency tone, and a notification in Japanese that the audible "piro-piro-piro" tone (the data burst, not the bells mentioned above) is only audible on analog TVs, with an additional device required after the digital transition due to it being a data signal to digital TVs.
'''México:''' The [[wikipedia:Mexican Seismic Alert System|Mexican Seismic Alert System]] ([[wikipedia:es:Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano|es:Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano]], SASMEX) blares warnings of a distant earthquake (¡Alerta Sísmica!) up to a minute before the shock wave hits. There are loudspeakers and sirens in Mexico City and the city of Oaxaca, there are radio alerts in a similar format to the US Weatheradio in several cities, there are interruptions of conventional broadcast media.
'''Russia:''' An old system of power-independent wire radio ("radiotochka") still exists for this exact purpose, for performing emergency broadcasts even during blackouts.
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A national EAS test was performed on November 11, 2011. It showed that nationally, the system needed a little work: Some cable providers switched to their EAS feed station (usually QVC or another [[Home Shopping]] channel) without showing the test, others didn't state that a test was happening, and Direct TV viewers were hearing [[Lady Gaga]] instead of the test message.
[[File:2018 Hawaii missile alert.jpg|thumb|An incorrect EAS message sent to Hawaiian cell phones on January 13, 2018.]]
In 2018 a EAS alert for a missile strike was disseminated in Hawaii as the result of an error. Given recent nuclear saber rattling from [[North Korea]], it seemed believable.
{{examples|Emergency Broadcasts can be found in the following works:}}
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