Experts and FEMA officials have dismissed those claims, but some social media users said they planned to shut off their cellphones Wednesday.Īlarms continued to sporadically go off for a few minutes afterward. The test has spurred falsehoods on social media that it’s part of a plot to send a signal to cellphones nationwide to activate nanoparticles such as graphene oxide that have been introduced into people’s bodies. No action is required by the public.”įederal law requires the systems be tested at least once every three years.
That messages said: “This is a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, covering the United States from 14:20 to 14:50 hours ET. The message also went to people watching broadcast or cable television or listening to the radio.
If they turn their phones on after the 30 minutes have expired they should not get the message. and then turned on in the next 30 minutes, they should have gotten the message when they turned their phones back on. If their phones were turned off at 2:20 p.m. The test is conducted over a 30-minute window, although mobile phone owners should only get the message once. Customers whose phones were set to the Spanish language should have gotten the message in Spanish.
