UNITED STATES (CBS) — Your electronic devices may alarm you today — but there’s a reason for that. A nationwide test of the federal emergency alert system will be broadcast at approximately 2:20 p.m.

Around 87,000,000 mobile phones across Scotland and the UK will receive the warning this weekend. The UK Government will be testing their Emergency Alert System (EAS) for the second time this week.

WASHINGTON -- This is why you may have gotten a notification from the White House on Wednesday. The government tested a new national alert system that would let presidents send out emergency messages ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. (KPTV) - Multnomah County is planning to send a test alert for its Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system on Thursday afternoon. The county says the alert will go to the cell ...

Explainer: How do emergency phone alerts work, and why should we pay attention?

In a release issued under the same headline earlier today by Pelmorex Corp., please note that the time of test for Ontario has changed from 12:55 PM EDT to 1:55 PM EDT. The corrected release follows: ...