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The Emergency Alert System Dilemma: How can authorities leverage technological advancements to aid (and not diminish) strategic disaster risk reduction endeavors?
People across the globe have come to rely heavily on technology, which has proven to be an exceedingly effective tool for wireless emergency alert systems. Wireless emergency alert systems can take a number of forms, but primarily use cell tower and Internet pathways to notify the public on a variety of emergency situations by sending text alerts to mobile phones.
During the wildfire outbreak in California in December, 2017, authorities sent emergency alerts to over 22 million cellphones.
During Hurricane Irma in September 2017 and Hurricane Harvey in August 2017, emergency alerts informed millions of people on changes to the storms’ strengths and trajectories.
The efficacy of emergency alert systems is generally acknowledged yet not without scrutiny.
On Saturday, January 13, 2018, a false alert sent to cellphones across Hawaii sent hundreds of thousan... read more
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