In the Netherlands there is a Emergency alert (every 6 months) test together with the montly air raid siren check. Everytime this happens the siren test is even more scarier.
This was fun while most of the class was out on break, 4 of us trying to switch off about 30 tablets/phones left in bags that wouldn't shut up, and of course with so many it's difficult to hear where exactly the sounds are coming from
@@oldblueshirtguy Not just EU-Alert, it's the standard Cell Broadcast alert sound. Only very few countries in the world opted to use a different warning sound for their Emergency Alerts, the rest uses this one.
Just like every other place that has is too! When tsunami hit japan two years ago it gave the same warning, same for when COVID hit places that had it went off like us
â@@thedemographicschannel611 .... Apparently alot of people in the UK purposely had their phone on silent....some even switched it off about ten minutes beforehand, and switched it back on ten minutes after the alert time. I did neither, but I never got a sound alert, just a text message which flashed up a 'warning: test alert'. That the person on it had an American accent just compounds things. Not only did the government not manage to make the alert that effective - they couldn't even use a British accent. This government can't do ANYTHING right. They manage to botch things up continuously. After a while it gets very wearing.... knowing that your country just isn't functioning properly anymore.....and the government doesn't seem to care.
@@Nathan-rc2oiI didnât know. I think my dad told me once but I forgot. Iâm also a telecoms engineer so it was weird how Iâd donât really know about it. I donât really check the news.
God, I can't think of anything worse than knowing that nuclear missiles are about to go off over London and you're trapped in Euston, the worst of all London terminus stations.
Nope, same goes for Germany. The UK and Germany both dismantled their siren systems in the 90s after the end of the cold war, and never implemented an efficient warning system to replace the sirens. Germany also only recently introduced these phone alerts as a reaction to the deadly Ahr valley flood of 2021 that cost over 100 lives because of the lackluster warning infrastructure.
That buzzing sound from the station alarm system sounds almost identical to the buzzer alarm of the United States Emergency Alert System. Luckily, theirs does not have the grating racket before the tones activate.
The sound is officially called SOS in the Cell Broadcast specification, at least the one used for EU-Alert. I don't know why, since it's actually not the full SOS pattern. You'll have to ask whoever came up with it when the system was first implemented in the US, the Netherlands and Japan, although Japan uses different sounds.
POV Alphys: Iâm so scared about the emergency test alert until itâŠ. **goes off** makes a scary noises Sans: alright there it goes Mettaton: ahh this scares me Undyne: donât worry itâs just a drill Papyrus: this gave me a heart attack Frisk: I was staying calm Flowey: it seems like it stopped the alarming⊠Napstablook? Napstablook: **silence statue**
I remember this happening while I was heading home with my mom and my siblings, I was out of town so it really shocked me, as I didn't know it was happening. Luckily it was a test.
@@danielwortley2241 This. The test was conducted using one of the lower warning categories, which use the phone's volume settings. Only the highest warning category overrides all volume settings and goes full blast, since that one's meant for extreme emergencies that require immediate action
I REALLY don't like overreaching, nanny-state governments, but I can't help but see emergency alerts as being a rare example of government actually fulfilling its' role of allowing citizens to protect themselves. Maybe it's because I'm in the U.S., many parts of which experience extreme weather conditions from time to time. The Midwest, for example, has horrifically destructive tornadoes pretty often, and even outside of Tornado Alley, letting people know that a flash flood is likely could be a lifesaver for those near rivers and low-lying areas. That being said, getting an Amber Alert (description of suspect and victim involved in kidnapping incident) a whole state away is pretty obnoxious. Considering the tyranny the U.K. Government imposes on its' subjects, an emergency alert system seems like small fry from my perspective.
This will be used to scare the UK in to accepting climate lockdowns. It serves a great purpose in a country like the US where all kinds of disasters are commonplace but on a tiny island with mild weather itâs certainly going to be abused.
Tyranny? LMAO, the US is far worse these days in the book censoring and meddling government stakes. You're welcome to visit our free country if any of your women folk require an abortion.
The tyrrany (and origin of recent hate to the government) comes from the conservative party. Your appeal sounds like it comes from a republican set of ideals so I don't know what the point of the comment was
This is a real life emergency alert UK and don't open the door because alarm has been theres a rain and thunderstorm because you will get electric a thunderstorms and rains are water in real life
@@jackjackum It actually doesn't have to be new, Android and iOS have supported these alerts since they were first implemented in several countries over 10 years ago. The problem is that many Android manufacturers as well as Apple handled the implementation of the alerts on a country-by-country basis, meaning that phones only supported emergency alerts in the countries that used them at the time of the phone's release. If a country introduced these alerts years later, the phones sold before that point in time didn't support alerts there, while all newer phones that came out after did. There are only a few manufacturers that never did it this way, namely Honor, Huawei and Motorola. On their phones, it works pretty much everywhere, although they may have the American names for the different warning categories.
Why, though? I'd say a government implementing efficient public warning infrastructure is less dystopian than a government that doesn't give a single fuck about being able to warn the public. Over 100 people died here in Germany in a single flood because there was no efficient warning infrastructure, because politicians had systematically ignored and cut costs on public warning infrastructure for decades. That's dystopian, not a government that actually takes steps to try and improve things.
This is a test from all phones in the UK its not thst loud we got it and we got 2 sirens and then it went off and we acted like nothing happened what a load on bullshit I thought it would be louder
Am I the only person that never got an alert haha? I was even aware of it before hand as Iâve a mate at work that was talking some bollocks about us getting nuke warningsđnever got one. Infact my younger brother was the only one in the whole family that got one. Iâm on o2.
Only one of my two phones actually went off, lots of people tell me they never got it which in itself highlights that classic British cockup will even happen should a national emergency be announced
@@Nick_80599 Are you sure your phones were able to get the alert? Also the government have confirmed it was a success. It was never meant to alert all phones.
Majority of the issue was that it won't work if your phone is not connected to mobile data. Meaning if you're just sat at home on only your WIFI, you won't get it.
@@tricksor6589 Not quite true. When you use Wifi, the phone's still connected to the network, unless you have absolutely no signal at home. Only when you actively switch off the phone's conneciton to the mobile network (aka turn on airplane mode) it will not be able to receive any alerts.
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Meanwhile three mobile customers are still waiting for their test alert đ
I just realised all of my house have 3-
Hahaha
Does run on a set network... It uses the whole
My whole family are on 3, well SMARTY which is also 3. We were like oh, they did the test? We had no idea lmao.
The only life-threatening emergency near me is ALDI closing before I can get there.
TRUE
Omg like when you left too let to get ur mums shopping but you donât get to ALDIâs on time before it closed
Great catch! All the phones going off simultaneously sounds EPIC!
Didnât to me IRL
Idk about epic. Seems kinda messed up to me...
There's no way a real person would type this comment
hows it epic
@@aakrueger thatâs because this isnât a person itâs a pig mate
In the Netherlands there is a Emergency alert (every 6 months) test together with the montly air raid siren check. Everytime this happens the siren test is even more scarier.
In Finland every first monday of a month at 12 o' clock there is a nationwide testing of sirens, so basically every month
I once forgot and I live near airbase in vreedepel
Itâs scared shit out of me
i was studying and that gave me an absolute heart attack
But not a fatal one obviously.
@@kevinmcmullan1827 actually very fatal, im very much dead right now.
@@regallx3917oh my condolences
â@@regallx3917 H-How are you texting this if you're dead? Are you... A GHOST?!?! đ±đ»
@@S-CB-SL-Animations He just build different, like otherworldly diferent
I've always wanted to see/hear an emergency alert going off on so many phones.
I wonder if this happened in a phone store
Come to an airport in Oklahoma in May.
This was fun while most of the class was out on break, 4 of us trying to switch off about 30 tablets/phones left in bags that wouldn't shut up, and of course with so many it's difficult to hear where exactly the sounds are coming from
I feel bad for you lot imagine having Sunday school
And the alarm only lasted for 10 seconds why would you need to turn it offâŠ..
Bs story
Umm what gives you the right to go through other people's bags?
Never heard sm bs in my life
This happened to me too while my phone was silent and I was watching the 107 bus route Nice one Omari
Satisfying but surprising and scary at the same time.
Nah, Do you remember the alert sirens that went off periodically in the 80s? Now that was scary
@@TrenyCwm I wasn't alive then.
@@harrisonrobins3689 What sort of excuse is that?
@@TrenyCwm Are you in a different conversation to him or something? That makes no sense.
@@jackjackum lol my bum said it!
It sounds like exactly like the phone alerts we have here in the US
Yeah, even has a US accent.
@@eh1702 Thats only if you have it set to an "American" Accent. The normal message only comes with beeping and the Alert.
It's the standard default "EU Alert" sound. It can be changed, but it seems the UK has not requested a custom tone.
@@oldblueshirtguy Not just EU-Alert, it's the standard Cell Broadcast alert sound. Only very few countries in the world opted to use a different warning sound for their Emergency Alerts, the rest uses this one.
Just like every other place that has is too! When tsunami hit japan two years ago it gave the same warning, same for when COVID hit places that had it went off like us
The sound is just so satisfying
It woke me up from my afternoon nap đ
"Iâm from the government and Iâm here to help"
The nine most terrifying words in the English language
â@@thsxi
Never a truer word......
But this is genuinly helpful.
@@thedemographicschannel611 Not in this country it's not.
â@@thedemographicschannel611 .... Apparently alot of people in the UK purposely had their phone on silent....some even switched it off about ten minutes beforehand, and switched it back on ten minutes after the alert time.
I did neither, but I never got a sound alert, just a text message which flashed up a 'warning: test alert'. That the person on it had an American accent just compounds things.
Not only did the government not manage to make the alert that effective - they couldn't even use a British accent.
This government can't do ANYTHING right. They manage to botch things up continuously. After a while it gets very wearing.... knowing that your country just isn't functioning properly anymore.....and the government doesn't seem to care.
Due to terror attacks in recent years I was expecting at least some panic in this vid but everyone seemed relatively unbothered
everyone was warned for like a month prior that it was going to be set off so most people were ready for it
@@Nathan-rc2oiI didnât know. I think my dad told me once but I forgot. Iâm also a telecoms engineer so it was weird how Iâd donât really know about it. I donât really check the news.
Bro i remember this it was like so hyped up for some reason idk
God, I can't think of anything worse than knowing that nuclear missiles are about to go off over London and you're trapped in Euston, the worst of all London terminus stations.
Yea, Waterloo is much more aesthetically pleasing. đ
Was interesting during the marathon. Heard it echoing around but was so knackered it didnt register.
Only 1 out of my 4 phones in my house went off and that was the work phone đđ€Ł
I was just watching tv and then this went off
Has UK really not had a emergency alert system like that until recently?
Only TV/radio
Nope, same goes for Germany. The UK and Germany both dismantled their siren systems in the 90s after the end of the cold war, and never implemented an efficient warning system to replace the sirens. Germany also only recently introduced these phone alerts as a reaction to the deadly Ahr valley flood of 2021 that cost over 100 lives because of the lackluster warning infrastructure.
RIP main departure boards
That buzzing sound from the station alarm system sounds almost identical to the buzzer alarm of the United States Emergency Alert System. Luckily, theirs does not have the grating racket before the tones activate.
Itâs the phones⊠the EAS.. read the title
Bc it is , every other place that has it makes the same sound , when COVID hit Koera Middle East countries japan had it
It happened to me on the 321.
I'm amongst the number whose phones didn't get it. Interestingly i did get the Spanish one when i went there for my holiday
IMAGINE BEING THER WHILE THAT HAPPENED
the way everyone just looks down at their phone lol
Does anyone know why it's 6 blasts of the siren?
Not 8. Not 10 etc.
Who decided 6 and why the 3rd blast is longer than the rest?
That probably was the result of a lot of meetings and discussions đ
The sound is officially called SOS in the Cell Broadcast specification, at least the one used for EU-Alert. I don't know why, since it's actually not the full SOS pattern. You'll have to ask whoever came up with it when the system was first implemented in the US, the Netherlands and Japan, although Japan uses different sounds.
Me casually watching super Mario and then alarm goes off
âRemember, no British.â
it's like when people put an alarm on every phone in the apple store
Letâs hope prisoners who have them up their backsides remembered to turn theirs off.
I've got one in at the moment, and I'm not in prison.
Are there 4g/5g phones small enough for that?
so surreal
POV
Alphys: Iâm so scared about the emergency test alert until itâŠ. **goes off** makes a scary noises
Sans: alright there it goes
Mettaton: ahh this scares me
Undyne: donât worry itâs just a drill
Papyrus: this gave me a heart attack
Frisk: I was staying calm
Flowey: it seems like it stopped the alarming⊠Napstablook?
Napstablook: **silence statue**
"A new UK government service" spoken in that proud to be British royal American accent
A magical EAS ADVENTURE đȘđ©
Funny how everybody just looks at their phones exept that 1%
This happened to me when I was at home today
This is your emergency broadcast system announcing the commencement of the annual Purge as sanctioned by the U.K. GovernmentâŠâŠ đ
I was in the cinema just heading to my seat to watch the Mario Movie when it went off
I remember this happening while I was heading home with my mom and my siblings, I was out of town so it really shocked me, as I didn't know it was happening. Luckily it was a test.
Mom? Who TF says that in the UK? Weirdo.
@@dp8739. lol I spend most of my time online, Iâve been americanified
I could swear mine never went off.
The fact Iâm in the Uk right now
I got so scared I was just minding my business at Kingâs Cross St Pancras
this sound is so scary!!!
wow there is a lot of alerts
I was on the 41 at Turnpike Lane when this happened đđ
Meanwhile in Roding Valley
my one was quite loud too and it gave me a heart attack
you probably had your ringer up to max i set mine quite low and it wasn't as loud
@@danielwortley2241 This. The test was conducted using one of the lower warning categories, which use the phone's volume settings. Only the highest warning category overrides all volume settings and goes full blast, since that one's meant for extreme emergencies that require immediate action
Oh shame I missed it, I wasn't alert !!đ§
I REALLY don't like overreaching, nanny-state governments, but I can't help but see emergency alerts as being a rare example of government actually fulfilling its' role of allowing citizens to protect themselves. Maybe it's because I'm in the U.S., many parts of which experience extreme weather conditions from time to time. The Midwest, for example, has horrifically destructive tornadoes pretty often, and even outside of Tornado Alley, letting people know that a flash flood is likely could be a lifesaver for those near rivers and low-lying areas.
That being said, getting an Amber Alert (description of suspect and victim involved in kidnapping incident) a whole state away is pretty obnoxious.
Considering the tyranny the U.K. Government imposes on its' subjects, an emergency alert system seems like small fry from my perspective.
This will be used to scare the UK in to accepting climate lockdowns. It serves a great purpose in a country like the US where all kinds of disasters are commonplace but on a tiny island with mild weather itâs certainly going to be abused.
i have no idea what you've said. Too scientific for my brain
Tyranny? LMAO, the US is far worse these days in the book censoring and meddling government stakes. You're welcome to visit our free country if any of your women folk require an abortion.
The tyrrany (and origin of recent hate to the government) comes from the conservative party.
Your appeal sounds like it comes from a republican set of ideals so I don't know what the point of the comment was
â@@kv4648 Don't you think your opinion of party on this shouldn't matter for this?
this is the same alarm they have in New Zealand, if anyone can provide context as to why they use the same alarm that would be great
It's a standard alarm, many, many other countries use it
Iâm so afraid about it I nearly cried out.
I never got it. Neither did my other phone. No one in my family got it even my brother who is on a different network didn't get it
Three customers carrying on oblivious
that alert scared the shit out of me
I tried to film in westfireld but my phone turned the camera off when the alert came
This thing gave me a heart attack earlier
Saw you on the elizabeth line todayđ€Ł
i was in an inflatable park when this happened LOL
The alert system didnât go off on my phone
When mine went off i was playing a horror game scared the fuck outta me
Thatâs a very nice video
I just thought it was the fire alarm, and not the alarm that is to warn me the world is about to end
Final sound we will hear before the nuke
Same thing as critical alert emergency alert test Halloween 2024 đđđ
All I know is that this vid will go very viral rn
Will Inspector sands please report to your phone đđđđđ
This scared the sh*t out of me cus I completely forgot about it
Same
We have a problem
This ruined my game of hide and seek đ€
Just imagine if you were driving a train and that happend
It can be completely unexpected and could distract the drivers
@@ThemeparkDylan news reports being saying if you are driving then you should turn it off
@@harrisonsnazel7482 Sometimes they might not read the news and it just comes unexpected
@@ThemeparkDylanBut itâs been publicised for weeks when itâll be
@@EuanBCFC Fair enough
Excellent â€â€
how the f is it excellent in any way
did you emergency alert system at 3:00 tonight morning
I experienced it but not outside
This is a real life emergency alert UK and don't open the door because alarm has been theres a rain and thunderstorm because you
will get electric a thunderstorms and rains are water in real life
It went on when was on 125 bus
I had that on my iPhone 12 and it really made me jump đ
The Purge vibes.
Tallyho Omari. This must of been a right laugh, when the alert whent off in Euston station.
people have not turned it of yet ?
Iâve turned mine off. Iâm not living in fear
I had this on my phone too
My iPhone SE got the alert but my father's Windows Phone didn't get anything!
It was only on iOS and Android, not Windows OS.
And it has to be a new phone.
@@jackjackum It actually doesn't have to be new, Android and iOS have supported these alerts since they were first implemented in several countries over 10 years ago. The problem is that many Android manufacturers as well as Apple handled the implementation of the alerts on a country-by-country basis, meaning that phones only supported emergency alerts in the countries that used them at the time of the phone's release. If a country introduced these alerts years later, the phones sold before that point in time didn't support alerts there, while all newer phones that came out after did.
There are only a few manufacturers that never did it this way, namely Honor, Huawei and Motorola. On their phones, it works pretty much everywhere, although they may have the American names for the different warning categories.
đđđ turned my off đ
Same
I got it in the queue at starbucks and the fella in front of me who just got his drink dropped it. Went all over my fucking shoes
dystopian sci fi movies are now becoming reality
This is not for heavy winds and wild fires. This is prepping for war.
Of course.
It's been in the works since 2014. And apparently the same system was used to send everyone a COVID-19 text message.
Everyone in my house got it, like, i was the only one to not get it XD
That is so funny! Mine didnât work đ
Dystopian.
People won't realise until it's too late.
@@sgtschweinhund agreed
Why, though? I'd say a government implementing efficient public warning infrastructure is less dystopian than a government that doesn't give a single fuck about being able to warn the public. Over 100 people died here in Germany in a single flood because there was no efficient warning infrastructure, because politicians had systematically ignored and cut costs on public warning infrastructure for decades. That's dystopian, not a government that actually takes steps to try and improve things.
at 3.p.m + same on my phone
I had mine turned off
Happened to me whilst working
I have that same
Did Euston Underground Station has a test alert?
Not the station, but all UK phones should have got it.
@@tahirarafique4620 not everyone's
@@tahirarafique4620 that is, unless they turned off emergency alerts
Okay.
@@mudchute4dlr Yh
This is a test from all phones in the UK its not thst loud we got it and we got 2 sirens and then it went off and we acted like nothing happened what a load on bullshit I thought it would be louder
I was in coop at the time
Cool
Am I the only person that never got an alert haha? I was even aware of it before hand as Iâve a mate at work that was talking some bollocks about us getting nuke warningsđnever got one. Infact my younger brother was the only one in the whole family that got one. Iâm on o2.
Only one of my two phones actually went off, lots of people tell me they never got it which in itself highlights that classic British cockup will even happen should a national emergency be announced
Itâs called a test. Do you know what the definition of a test is?
@@MrRawMonkey yes I was just saying! Test ultimately failed in that case. It highlights the system is inadequate
@@Nick_80599 Are you sure your phones were able to get the alert? Also the government have confirmed it was a success. It was never meant to alert all phones.
Majority of the issue was that it won't work if your phone is not connected to mobile data. Meaning if you're just sat at home on only your WIFI, you won't get it.
@@tricksor6589 Not quite true. When you use Wifi, the phone's still connected to the network, unless you have absolutely no signal at home. Only when you actively switch off the phone's conneciton to the mobile network (aka turn on airplane mode) it will not be able to receive any alerts.