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Israel Home Front Command pushes for upgrade to rocket warning system
March 28, 2013 - Officials want to limit sirens to definitively endangered areas, making them more accurate and reliable. Read More »
How Mobile Carriers Can Support Effectively Government’s Public Warning Efforts
December 27, 2012 - When introducing a cell broadcast based public warning system, one of the biggest efforts is to achieve proper support by the local mobile carriers. US carrier Verizon has demostrated on how this should be done properly, by introducing a vast number of phone models supporting this service, and yes...also the iPhone. To Verizon site
Commercial Mobile Alert Service (Cell Broadcast) used widely during Hurricane Sandy
October 30, 2012 - Local emergency managers and the National Weather Service made widespread use of the cell broadcast based Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS, also known as Wireless Emergency Alerts, or WEA). Read More »
Do Alert Notifications Fail to Live up to Expectations?
October 13, 2012 - Why single notification elements are imperfect yet deliver a powerfull tool when used combined in a multi-channel alert system. Read More »
Wondering Where Those Emergency Alerts in iOS6 Are? It Depends On Your Carrier
October 11, 2012 - iPhone version 6 does support cell broadcast based emergency alerts. Your mobile carrier only needs to ask for. Read More »
SMS and Sirens failed to warn the population in time
July 9, 2012 - The Krasnodar flood disaster in Russia proved once more why a multi-channel system based on Cell Broadcast, Push notification and other means might be the right choice to cope with early warnings. Especially since the given stand-alone SMS and sirens system failed to warn the population in time and caused nearly 200 fatalities. Read More »
GPS network is quick quake sensor
April 25, 2012 - The US space agency Nasa is set to test a real-time network of GPS sensors that it hopes will lead to faster, more accurate earthquake analysis. Nearly 500 sensors in the Pacific-coast states of California, Oregon and Washington will be put to use. The plan aims to characterise the locations and magnitudes of events in minutes to help with disaster response. It should also lead to better predictions for any tsunami resulting from offshore earthquakes. >> Read more
Could GPS be used to predict earthquakes?
April 23, 2012 - Professor Kosuke Heki of Hokkaido University in Japan believes he has found a way to predict earthquakes. Heki analyses GPS signals by measuring the TEC, or Total Electron Content, in the upper atmosphere. Whilst measuring how the TEC was disrupted by sound waves after the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, he discovered - quite by accident - that the TEC was also disrupted in the 40 or so minutes before it. >> Read more
Emergency Broadcast: Going Mobile
August 12, 2011 - While television remains a pivotal presence in nearly every American household, for tens of millions of Americans, with many more joining them every day, cell phones (particularly data-equipped “smartphones”) are fast becoming the primary conduit of information and communication. Though many businesses and political candidates have assimilated this fact, government emergency communications has been slower to adapt. Until now, emergency broadcast has remained as tethered to the television as it was in 1963 when the current emergency broadcast system began. Read More »