Victims of domestic abuse could be at risk during this weekend’s emergency alert test across the UK, campaigners have warned. At 3pm on Sunday 7 September, the government will carry out a test of the system, causing phones on 4G and 5G networks to vibrate, emit a siren for up to 10 seconds and display…
Millions of mobile phones will sound in unison across the United Kingdom when an emergency alert system is tested next week. The second ever national alert test will take place at around 3pm on Sunday September 7, in what the Government calls “one of the largest public safety exercises of its kind”. Phones will vibrate…
On September 7 at 3 pm, millions of phones and tablets throughout the United Kingdom will buzz out a loud siren as part of a trial of the government’s Emergency Alerts system. During the test, any supported 4G or 5G phone or tablet will vibrate and emit a loud siren.(Representational Image/ Shutterstock) According to a…
The UK government is preparing for the second nationwide test of its Emergency Alerts system, scheduled for 7 September 2025 at 3:00 PM BST. Mobile phones on 4G and 5G networks will emit a loud siren-like sound and vibrate for up to 10 seconds, displaying a test message to ensure the system’s reliability. While the…
The leader of Camp Mystic had been tracking the weather before the deadly Texas floods, but it is now unclear whether he saw an urgent warning from the National Weather Service that had triggered an emergency alert to phones in the area, a spokesman for camp’s operators said Wednesday. Richard “Dick” Eastland, the owner of…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Three people died in flooding Tuesday as New Mexico’s Rio Ruidoso’s banks swelled amid the summer rainy season. The village of Ruidoso and other parts of New Mexico have received more warnings in the past few years as catastrophic wildfires have left vast swaths of once forested land without enough vegetation…
An emergency alarm will ring out on people’s mobile phones across the country on one day in September as the government tests its emergency alert system. In its second ever nationwide drill, the alert system will be tested at around 3pm on 7 September this year – with approximately 87 million devices vibrating and ringing…
A 10-second ‘Armageddon alert’ siren will sound on millions of UK mobile phones later this year as part of a test of the government’s emergency alert system. The emergency alert is used to warn if there is a danger to life nearby, in instances like extreme weather. The alert has been scheduled to take place…