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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:}}
== Comic Books ==
* An early issue of ''Epic Illustrated'' has a one-page strip in which a couch potato is lazing in front of his TV set with a beer. A voice from the TV announces a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The guy swigs a beer as the warning tone sounds, then starts to look uncomfortable and sweat, before finally writhing in agony and melting into a skeleton. In the final panel we see that the world outside has been incinerated. Meanwhile the voice on TV blithely announces "this was only a test."
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