National Emergency Alert System Test (November 9, 2011)
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- čas přidán 8. 11. 2011
- The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Communications Commission held the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System. The test occured at 2 p.m. ET and was carried on all broadcast television, radio stations and cable and satellite television systems in the U.S. and U.S. territories. Wednesday, November 9, 2011.
This has been, and always will be, probably the scariest noise I ever had the misfortune of hearing over the TV as a kid.
I came after watching Ant-Man and Wasp
I KNOW RIGHT
HPlus yo the first time I heard and saw the noise of a amber alert on my TV I was so scared. But I was only a kid
HPlus same
HPlus it’s worse on the radio at night
THIS NOISE ALWAYS SCARES ME
The noise always scares me too
Back then yes but now its stupid
Ikr scares me to
Me too...I'm from korea I love America so much...but so scared...
yes It is scarist sound
Instant heart attack.
Instant death.
*watching normal television*
*_WOO-BEEEEP, WOO-BEEEEP_*
aH- *panic attack*
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone would actually get a heart attack from this and die
True
lol american tv
I actually wonder if the EAS is purposely designed to sound terrifying?
Terrifying for us to grab our attention and turn up the TV/radio to listen to vital information so we don't die. _Remember kids, fear sells._
lol why the hell did you wait 2 months to type that!
the tone are signals that can be decoded
ergodana хлебарки nope but maybe its simple like morse?
to get your ass moving and let you know the danger of the situation
lol we took a break during class just so we can watch this at school. Another teacher ran into our classroom asking our teacher if it was a real emergency. Apparently they were watching the TV for a different purpose and never got the memo.
Bruh
wuss_poppin_jimbo damn that was 8 years ago lol
Bruh
My man
Ha
This used to scare the crap out of me as a kid especially thunder storm and tornado warnings omfg
It still scares me to this day.
The good thing about them is it ends quickly and goes back to
The movie or show we were watching
504jec I’m still scared😖
You got warnings on TV for thunderstorms? US living in 1019.
It still scares me it's so scary and it just pops up randomly
The Emergency Alert System tones are meant to alert your fight-or-flight senses, to grab your attention towards your tv/radio so you are aware of the danger that is occurring/about to occur.
Actually, no. The 3 beeps at the beginning are the signal codes being sent to your TV provider. The long beep is it getting the signal.
Wait that means siren head is making its victims activate fight or flight response- so that’s why
Well hot diggity damn bing bippity bap fuck
The Australian one was developed with just that in mind, it was designed to create a primal instinct to fear.
No, the 3 headers at the beginning message are encoded with special information. This is called SAME.
these always scare me when they come on because you never know if it'll be a test or not 😣
yeah you will. it says what alert it is at the bottom.
BrownPaperBag lol true 😂
@Rachael Sim in my experience, usually about once a month just to test it.
They seem to come on once a week where I live (Michigan).
The three buzzes are a thrice-repeated databurst. Get an emergency radio, and it will decode them for you just like the systems on the broadcasting infrastructure do, showing you what kind of alert it is and (if you put your location's code into the radio's settings) will ignore anything that doesn't concern you.
Call me crazy, but I love the EAS. It warns you, it annoys you, and sometimes it scares you.
Ikr
Oh dear!
it's what dooms day would sound like man
+Henry Johnson You're crazy.
Henry Johnson you want it too scare you including if it's a national emergency.
when the alert system test stops but it keeps going as it gets louder and louder, coming closer to your home
The problem has been resolved after this test.
Sirenhead is coming....
"..Does that tree look like a leg to you?"
"Wait a minute Poles don't normally move"
Long Horse is coming to save you…
Dear god, I freak out when I hear the EAS on the radio
same
Back in 2014, whenever they test it on the radio, a speech clip plays before the tones. And it gave me enough time to turn the radio off. Sometimes I wasn't fast enough :'(
Wuss
I heard only one of the shrill beginning beeps in my dad's truck one time and it cut back to normal radio, never to be explained.
Same
this is so scary, not just the noise but the screen too...I couldn't even get through 2 seconds of listening to it before I had to pause the video
i cant get over it even over it and it scares me alot irl
Pastel Mel If the noise scares you, I suggest turning the sound off. But for the screen, maybe you should turn away from it or look at something else while the video plays.
Jesus Christ this was on nick at nite and it woke me up at 4 am. I shit you not I was scared for my life. I changed the channel to TBS cause AFV was on.
GTA5Uploadr FR AS A KID IT FREAKED ME OUT
IK WHY THEY GOTTA HAVE THIS AT 4 IN THE FUCKIN MORNING?!?!
Zephylr Designs There was an amber alert and they activated an EAS for it at 3:50 a.m. one night in the year 2014 (Or maybe 2015?).
To this day, it scares the hell out of me whenever I heard the beginning header of the system. The noise even haunts me when I think about it.
I love afv
Scares me too when I hear it.
Japan tv alarm: twinkle twinkle little star
America tv alarm: EEEEE EEEEEE EEEEEEE EEEEEEEE OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. EEEEEE EEEEEEE
wait until you listen to the greece alarm
J-Alert, look it up
Canada's Alert Ready is scarier
japan's tv alarm for natural disasters, you haven't heard of j-alert before
Canada: AAAAOOOAAAAOOO
I hate watching tv like at midnight then that plays very loudly.
Especially if your down in a basement or something alone in the dark catching up on some Dead of Summer.
LionTigerVlogs Ya, that ones the worst
Its soooooo scary who made that I got like 10000000 TVs and it was FRICKIN LOUD PLEASE KILL ME
That happened to me when I was younger. Everytime I'd hear that sound, I would run off into my parents room and sleep with them for the night.
It’s like siren head running to you
When I was on holiday in America (so I had never heard this before) with no warning on that channel it came on and scared the living daylights out of me and my brother lol
good.
I live in America and sometimes it goes off at 1:00 in the morning and gives me a heart attack 😬😂
@@brookevanfulpen6661 I've heard a lot of people complain how it goes off in the middle of the night... Why do they do that? I'm guessing those alarms are tests, why do it at 1-3am and ruin the sleep of possibly millions of people.
@@CrayCrayslab I really wish I knew, its usually just a test. But from time to time it's an amber alert or a weather alert but normally its just a test, sometimes it will keep going off, like it will go back to normal and then go off again, it just goes back and forth and it grinds my gears, because everytime it scares the crap out of me since it usually goes off in the early morning
@@brookevanfulpen6661 And now it goes off at 1am and it's the TV AND everybody's friggin phones in the house all at once.
That emergency noise for some reason scares me like I feel danger around me when I hear that noise. Its like its the high pitch and low noises that causes it, but I know its just a practice test.
@@MelissaLong1979 2021 is starting off strong! Prepare.
@@MelissaLong1979 ...You're not talking about TEotW (End of the World), are you???
0:43 this part of the alert system always gives me the chills.
It’s supposed to be the most annoying sound possible so that you can’t ignore it
Is that sound of siren head?
@@Justzara_SimplyZ4 yes i believe
Why the hell does everyone keep tallking about siren head, or long ago why refrence it?
It’s the alert tone.
EHHHHHH
EHHHHHH
EHHHHHH
EHHHHHH
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP
SAME
SAME repeated
SAME repeated
Attention Tone
(content)
EOM
EOM repeated
EOM repeated
Some non-EAS devices (such as phones) only play the attention tone.
This episode is sponsored b-
ERRRRRR ERRRRR DOOOOO
ZCZC-PEP-EAN-011001+0015-3131903-Comcast-____
@@EASsirenVids01 👍🏼
4 SAME Headers?
This scares me more than any other horror movie can
For anyone asking why this sound is so terrifying, its supposed to initiate your flight or fight response, it causes anxiety, fear, and the urge to find a safe place to hide/take shelter. There ya go there's the explanation
idk why this just doesn't sound scary, like canada's eas scares the shi outta me like it's so horrifying
0:38 me when I someone steps on my finger
OMG I'm dying
OOF
@@zettaflareig ok
I am writing this comment 10 years after the test occurred. Truly an historic day for American television.
Newswoman: 30 seconds
Man: 1370 seconds
😁😆😅
Me: neverending >:)
I remember when this test went on TV. I was being a normal kid, watching what ever the heck I watched in 2011, then the alert system came on. I cried.
Fun Fact: When the EAS was being conceived to be a revamp of the EBS, the FCC had looked for several emergency tones and decoder tones for not only the ENDEC system to trigger, but to get the alert attention of the viewer. When they found this signal, the FCC rejected it due to the likelihood that the tone would cause panic. They realized they couldn't change it any other way, so the FCC re-reviewed the rejection and went forth with it. Now, we have to deal with the ZCZC-PEP-(Alert Code) decoder tone and the EOM Burst. Just be happy this isn't the Canadian one..
Oh what is the Canadian one like I wonder. Now I've gotta go find it
@@joed180 it’s called Alert Ready. There is no data encoded in the tone, but it may frighten you if you aren’t ready for it
@@Windo0ows thanks! I just listened to it. It's pretty intense. But I can't believe they use cheesy text-to-Speech for it.
I used to hear this sound when i used to watch Adult Swim early in the morning. It scared me, but i kinda got over it from hearing it so much.
Why early in the morning?
This sound happened right before a tornado hit. To this day my heart stops when I hear it
Thank you for uploading, I watched this video over and over to help me get over my powerful fear of the Emergency Alert System Tests.
Just an FYI, The sound you hear before the beep (called a SAME burst) is actually an encoded message that communicates the emergency, the location it was transmitted from, and who gave the order. It's more than just a creepy sound.
Thanks to your upload I can finally watch TV from 1 to 6 AM! :)
@@RedNova. of course it is it’s a direct recording of a real alert
@@RedNova. if you self activated a weather radio with this it would show an Emergency Action Notification because it has the EAN code
so, the beeps are binary code?
@@Endytheenderperson Essentially yes. From my understanding, there are two frequencies use (I forget which specific ones), one represents a 0 and the other 1 in binary. The frequencies are a fraction of a second long and played one after another, such a short time that our brain morphs them into one harsh sounding tone. This is done 3 times to ensure all data is received, and none is lost. Those are the first 3 sounds that you hear at the beginning of every eas alert.
To be fair, you could still hear what he said here.
Imagine vibing and turning the news on: "SCP - 682 just broke out in gate B,i want all available helicopters and mtf units in gate B NOW!"
Then 682 the reptile vines with Shy Guy, Eye Pods, The Neck Snaper, And The Cute Blob, And the Girl Too,
back then: OMG SO SCARY HIDE HIDE
now: oh look its a black screen of nothingness
I have fleas and cooties
@@missbleach8767 WHAT
me and the boys bumping National Emergency Alert System Test (November 9, 2011)
Hey lui
I'm eating Cheerios and watching the simpsons then that stupid Ass emergency broadcast alert makes me literally spit out my cereal. xD
Hahahaha
@@BruhItsLuis ok
I personally think the scrolling message is better. but omg take away the damn sound and voice. that shit does scares me i actually ran out of my room at 3am while watching family guy
HAHAHA yes! I was watching CONAN at 3am and this came on and it was way loud too even though I had my volume down. Almost shit myself.
*****
The sound is the actual data being transmitted across the channel. There is an "attention" tone that you hear after the beeps. The length of each beep determines what type of alert is broadcasted, like the modem noise from dialup internet or a fax machine.
The scrolling text won't work without the sound.
Same the test came on the same time while I was watching family guy and after that I was gonna watch spongebob
Growing up in California and watching tv at my grandparents house be like :
No but really that sound is literally my childhood 😂
same cuz occasionally when i watch mmc (mickey mouse clubhouse) at my grandma's house the eas alarm kicks in and it would terrify me 😱
I don't even live in the US and this emergency sound in particular gives me major goosebumps. Just the thought that something terrible is going on, something that's not evident right this moment, but will inevitably reach you and your area (from the perspective of someone who lives in the respective EAS' country).
Where are you and does your country have a similar system? I've always wondered about that. We grew up hearing these tests so often that many can recite the whole standard message from memory.
Now that's an alarm test. We had a national alarm test in Germany today which was like one of the biggest fails ever xD
Oh? How so?
@@philchroniger7839 they announced that the sirens would howl everywhere, they'd interrupt tv and radio broadcast, and warn apps would get push notifications.
What actually happened was, most sirens kept silent and weren't working properly, warn apps warned too late or even not at all. And the broadcast interruption was a joke. On TV they only had a little banner on few channels, and on radio they were only like "ah, don't get spooked when the sirens start to howl", and continued their normal program.
In an emergency case, Germany is screwed
With this sound? I don't think Germany would have the USA version of the EAS tone.
no not with this sound^^
our sirens sound like this czcams.com/video/OG7vKauJ_GA/video.html and Idk how a proper alarm would be on TV or radio her, cuz that day the "alarm" was just a normal news broadcast :'D
Alright EAS, you still scare me but I’m glad you do that. Always draws my attention every time. Always needed that to see if there is danger.
I remember not knowing this was supposed to be scary, I was just “Dang no good interruption” while in the middle of a cartoon
lol
I had one about a few minutes ago, I was shaking, and my heart was pounding. One of the most frightening sounds.
Same
That's why I came here
Really? I'm in Florida and it's so common here bc of "severe thunderstorms." We are like IT'S JUST RAIN RELAX
when you let go of a tape measure:
Nice! Thanks for posting this.
I used to live close to the dock and at every morning the dock would blast this siren at 7:00 am. Turns out this alarm was also the alarm used for air raids
They blast EAS tones through a siren?
@@user2C47 emergency broadcast system
HOLY SHIT I WAS CASUALLY EATING DINNER IN SUBWAY TODAY AND THIS PLAYED OVER THE RADIO and it made me and my friends drop our sandwiches out of fear and just silenced the whole room
"HALF PRICE ON ALL DAMAGED CANS" - The Steve Brule Episode that brought me here
I literally remember watching TV when I was younger and I would get these “emergency alert tests” on the TV all the time and they would scare me so much omg
Great to see it worked for you
i left autoplay on by accident.
this video played and scared the absolute shit out of me
That noise is so eerie and unsettling!!!
+Jakob413 That's the point- it gets your attention!
I fucking hate it
Thanks for the video
Great video!
This sound would always scare me and STILL does. Just being in the living room alone with my younger sister, and being SCARED half to death because of the awful screech. I still am terrified to this day and have made the awful choice to turn of emergency alert alarms and amber alert alarms off of my phone.
please turn them on so you know what is happening
We also have the same EAS sound here in the Philippines. It's actually scary everytime I hear it
I'm pretty sure this is still the only time in recorded history where a action notification screen was seen officially
thanks for showing us that alert system test, i did not get to see it because i was at work, it did not come over the loudspeakers in the grocery store,
at exactly 1pm texas time it was playing a song, i was dissappointed,
our store gets the music with a satellite dish on the roof, thanks again i appreciated seeing this ,
Even today, this sound chills me to the bone
This is the best alarm I’ve ever heard
imagine being home alone, you want to sleep, its 2 am. the tv randomly started. you freak out. then this pops up. this is the scariest thing i have experienced once.
*when you try to find the remote to change channel* 😭
The sound actually gets me excited
And to this this can actually sound off on everything at any moment… especially with these times we live in..
My god.. it could happen at any second, any minute, any day, any week, any month… any year. Everyone please be safe. ❤
That's cool. It's cool that the government can reach out to the whole nation with-in seconds. I made up some scenarios when I listened to the chaos alarm sound. I don't know, I'm in a weird mood. Hard to explain the simplest tasks. My mind is just racing.
This gives me nostalgia!!
This hits different when your home alone watching tv and one of these pop up
One day in 2010 I was home alone and in my basement watching cartoons and one of these popped up- I was mortified
I had this shit play at night while I was watching TV; currently scarred for life. ):
Trump will probably use this.
Its been 3 years and im cryinf this horrifies me still
Thanks alot for making my baby brother cry!
These things make me so anxious but I do this anyways
Have y'all heard the stuff from Japan? They go "tinkle Winkle OwO this is a winkly binkly tornado warning, please find shelter delter UwU Winkle tinkle"
CZcams recommended that video to you too right?
I came from that video lol
clairedelune06 yup
@@raki31 _maybe youtube is trying to tell us something_
* *x files theme playing in the background* *
Thanks, 18 this year! And I'll have to look more into that.
🧰
This noise is the most disconcerting thing I've ever heard. Every time I hear it, my attention my instantly seized and shivers down my spine
Me: 3 seconds before im asleep..."yawn"...
*closes eyes* BEEP!!!
Me: OMG the apocalypse!!!!
Am I the only one that sleeps with TV on at night and get awaken by this. And this happen to me last night.
Nope. I also get awoken by it.
i still remember the moment this came on. i was 8 years old at the time this alert came on.
It never ceases to amaze me that, as time has progressed, the voiceover for "had this been an actual emergency," etc. etc. continues to have lower and lower fidelity... I mean, sheesh, even AM radio sounds better and is clearer to understand! One would think you'd at least want landline-phone quality if you're disseminating urgent news/instructions to the populace...
Oh I found an error. The EOM tones cannot be sent twice.
@vbEAS. Your comment is unclear about whether this station's equipment is timing out, the previous station's equipment is timing out, or the message is not long enough.
Funny thing is, this is the same exact alert sound in korea when the weather disaster(such as hurrican, earthquake, or too much heated climate) alert text comes and literally every phone in a room starts to make that sound. And we go like "aww shwit fkng annoying, not again..."
Dear god, I remember watching these
i keep on watching these videos so that im not scared when i hear that noise, but i still get an anxiety attack every time i hear it
I'm British, so lucky I don't have to deal with this. Although, in an oddity-archive-esque way, i'm really interested about these.
Same here! :D
tomreevo, there is no doubt that the UK and/or EU has something similar for your country that is store for you.
Same.
TomReevo I want to live in the UK now lol. I live in the US and these things wake me up a 2 am once a week and scare the crap outta me
Im i live in Canada so i dont have deal with this thing however there is a canadian version of this but it's not that scary the only thing that is scary is the sound but you can exit the alert so yeah
This has been and still is the most scariest thing I have ever heard- I was terrified of this as a child hahah
10 years ago today, that’s neat
I know its wierd but I like hearing these.
Being from the Midwest, I got so used to hearing tornado warnings that I eventually just kinda... shut it out 😂 that’s awful I know.
Same for me with weather in Florida. It's always severe thunderstorm this flood warning that. ... We do take it seriously tho for tornados here cuz those aren't as common.
those initial buzzes are so ominous
More so if you know what they are and the harm they can do if misused.
It's even more scarier when you can hear people talking in the background during the alert
Got to hear it yesterday
I’ve always loved this noise for some reason, it might be because I’ve always loved bad weather
These always used to scare the shit out of me when i was a kid I remember one time i curled up under my blanket and started crying and covering my ears
man imagine watchin somethin that didnt notify of this and thinkin it was an actual national alert
i remember one night when i was about 8 years old i fell asleep with the tv on, at around 2 am this blasted over the tv and i cried so hard
Imagine being in a restaurant that has multiple TVs on the walls, with the volume cranked. Now imagine an Amber Alert sounding, with those tones and a garbled synthesized voice, and repeating every 5 minutes, for 3 minutes at a time. Bad enough for most people. Total-meltdown-inducing for those with Misophonia or 4S or Asperger's. Been there, seen that.
There was an Amber alert for Indiana a few weeks ago, It was for a child abduction in a populated city. But thank goodness I thought it was going to say "This is not a test"
OofusTwillip My worst nightmare...
I have Asperger's but I do get kinda of a cold feeling in my stomach when I hear the tones and I don't
Freakout.
I have Asperger's, and the tones nearly gave me a heart attack every single time I hear them.
And everyone's phones make that ear-piercing noise that accompanies an Amber Alert.
10 years ago to this day...
It’s weird seeing this video 10 years ago and then Siren head becomes a thing in 2018 haunts people‘s nightmares until 2020
THIS ALWAYS SCARES MEH
fuck this scares the fuck outta me
ThatDudeNamedRhandy I fucking agree
Yeah I know it's scary as hell but it's supposed to be. I think it's one of the most effective EAS out there. Most other ones worldwide just have sirens but the EAS is really unique
my childhood... im getting chills.
This still scares the crap out of me. i don't know why it just gives me this eery feeling.