Correcting Misinformation Around International Emergency Alert Systems

WARNING: The following video contains sounds and situations that may be distreasful to some viewers. Loud alarms, sirens, and themes of war and natural disasters are in this video. Proceed with caution if these affect you emotionally or physically
Been coming across many videos on KZbin and TikTok recently of people rating international EAS alarms, but a good chunk of them aren't real, so I made this video to clear things up! If I happened to get something wrong, you're free to let me know in the comments below.
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[@faeriemachine]

Hi. It's been a year since I uploaded this video, and I've loved having curated a discussion about the correct information surrounding Emergency Alert Systems. Naturally some of my verdicts are wrong as well that I'll need to correct in the future, but doing this has given me a lot more information. Thank you all for the feedback Can't guarantee when the next video will come, but it'll come eventually...

[@nicolebiewald18]

An example of what got corrected was Singapore. The one that was fake was actually one of the three signals (maybe the alarm signal) and the real one was the important message signal, which is one of the three signals of singapore's eas alarm.

[@foxxyytofficial]

Brazil unfortunately doesn't have a national EAS-like system, sirens like that one are local systems for most dams (and the CNAAA/Angra nuclear reactors if i am not mistaken), our "national alert system" is Plantão Globo, just a TV program on the main private TV channel with live people that usually warns after tragedies already struck, both inside or outside the country (9/11 and Chernobyl appeared in this program) There are rumors that a state-controlled TV channel (TV Brasil) did made a test for a EAS-similar system but nothing about proper machines to receive signals like in USA and other countries, and for mobile phones the closest we have is the Civil Defense/Defesa Civil's opt-in SMS alerts for weather

[@Mateo-kf1ud]

Can't wait!

[@gattio3334]

As i am from czech republic, i can confirm the EAS Alarm is real and is being used as the universal EAS screen for us. We ussually have a main siren for a missile attack wich is tested every year on the first Tuesday. In the footage you can kind of hear the siren outside. Edit: and there is actual footage of the EAS alarm on youtube.

[@admiralfanatic]

Ok

[@IdanKashani]

Regarding Iran: I showed the Iran EAS sound to my mom, who lived through the war, and she confirmed that it was indeed real and the most terrifying sound in her life, as it meant that there was an inbound rocket attack/air raid.

[@KliqHP]

did the exact same thing with my iraqi mum

[@hwgoblin]

@@KliqHP Hello fello Iraqi! My mom is Iraqi too, but she's never lived there.

[@CrappyCanadianContent]

my iranian mother was a child during the Iran-Iraq war and still get anxiety hearing the siren to this day.

[@YusifTheBaldEagle]

@@KliqHP My mom was 6 when the war happened, then 15 when it ended

[@istudiobuilder1608]

A Saudi from the other side. My mom went through a Iran missile to Saudi

[@KingThrillgore]

A lot of these countries don't have emergency alert systems, instead they mostly maintain sirens, wireless emergency alerts, and state-owned news networks that would alert the public.

[@scout5148]

yeah, like Spain, I remember seeing a video of a Spain EAS, their EAS doesn't make noise, there is no sound!

[@that1person556]

What about uk

[@dhaure1513]

the italian one is literally a banger

[@scout5148]

and as well with some cases in californa

[@cass137.]

for example: Poland, Spain...

[@kouhai2456]

God, that Chinese one is terrifying. Imagine just chilling and a siren goes off with a voice counting down from 60, then an earthquake to top it off. Petrifying.

[@sidiliang3472]

For the most of the times you'll only get around 10 seconds of count down (because of its working principle). This is specifically terrifying when it goes off in the middle of the night. I experienced it three times this year...

[@turolretar]

You could say it’s bing chilling

[@cameronwalker4529]

@@turolretar**COMEDY**

[@The_Joshuan_Empire]

@@sidiliang3472 Poor you.

[@W1ck3d_Dr3ams]

@@sidiliang3472 that's trauma

[@pandeochas4719]

Fun fact: The man talking in Mexico’s EAS ( 9:00 ) is Manuel de la Llata, Voice actor renowned for his role in dubbing Superman (1978). He was chosen because it was thought that hearing the voice of Superman would instill calmness in the population

[@sademakeseditz]

I love that fact so much😭

[@CajunReveler]

That's so cool actually

[@guidingkeyblade7834]

That's so interesting. Now I can only imagine what it would sound like if the USA's EAS was read by Henry Cavill.

[@_lunartemis]

So cool! I can imagine little kiddos feeling much calmer about earthquakes, thinking that Superman has it under control.

[@guyonaplatform]

superman played the mexican alarm pretty cool

[@TabletT-vy6tf]

I love how Japan's EAS just sounds like flowers, and the background basically says you have a slim chance of hope

[@lagbg2249]

ice cream music in the background I'm watching you

[@cherryble]

Nice way to start your morning.

[@D_Rexo]

For us, it does sounds funny. But I recall that Japanese people are actually terrified when they hear this.

[@coughsreallyloudly]

@@D_Rexo yeah, like imagine you go to Japan and the eas starts going off, you might think it's Calming but then everybody starts screaming.

[@supern0vaa]

"A HUGE EARTHQUAKE IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN!!!" *calm music*

[@Johnwicklover1994]

The amount of people from all over the world who have come to correct the info in the video is heartwarming except it doesnt make me shit my pants any less

[@DokuFREENET]

The german one isnt a emergency at all - its a message saying that today is the international warnig day and its just a test (In fact its yous a cutout fraction of a news broadcast from the radio station swr3[i know becausei live in the area this station broadcasts in, and i heard the full news broadcast])- this is not what an emergency will sound like, this system was never used in germany since it was Lauch.

[@sketchr9258]

heartwarming yet shit inducing lmaoo

[@Unlike_Monster]

You don’t need to worry over the Swedish one. Because its only ever heard during tests. So most of us sweeds don’t panic when we hear it haha.

[@Sepia_Skittles]

It's like EAS alarms are bringing us together.

[@lonesomeraineful]

The Japanese EAS’s scariest part is when your tv is off it turns on

[@Buzz46]

We’ll earthquakes happen a lot there so I guess better be safe than sorry

[@GracemarieJohnson2763]

​@@Buzz46Exactly.

[@magdalenawiktor2021]

🗿

[@Slt_09]

At full volume

[@Mr.MMer_Computer]

DERH

[@andy72st]

3:15 In Italy, we DO NOT HAVE an EAS. We are testing it, and the sound is THE SAME AS USA'S.

[@Yjg-malaeouron.-uhfn]

As an italian myself, io confermo!

[@jenniferwikler6692]

i really believed that other EAS was real 💀

[@TokiTheUhh]

Hehe, same (that exact sound is actually called SAME (not making it up lol))

[@yourlocalepicairlines_465]

It’s only the Phone EAS system. Currently no EAS for the TVs.

[@andrzejewscy4576]

@@TokiTheUhh yeah you don't have to reassure us that you're not making it up, it was said in the video

[@battadia]

The New Zealand one also makes your phone vibrate at the fastest setting, as well as flash the screen, torch, and any other lights it has. NEMA wants to make COMPLETELY sure that you're awake.

[@Minecraftbfdilover]

Wouldn't be surprised if it also screamed "BITCH WAKE THE FUCK UP WAAAAAAAHHHOOOOOHHWWAAAAAAAGOOOOIOHHHH"

[@MightyWinz]

That’s actually very good.

[@hamzahassan7730]

Wait actually? I don’t think emergency alerts are capable of turning on the flashlight

[@battadia]

@@hamzahassan7730 It doesn't care what you think it can do, it does it anyway.

[@hamzahassan7730]

@@battadia damn they are really serious about getting people alerted

[@mauroghen]

Canada’s is absolutely traumatizing to a degree, worse moment was while camping in a small tent, far from cell towers, so the signal kinda “broke” and I received the same alert a couple of times across a few hours starting at 3AM, dead silence of the woods abruptly drowned by this blaring alarm while asleep makes you jump like no horror game/movie ever could.

[@mauroghen]

The worse part is the slight half second of silence when your phone or tv blacks out trying to load in the alert and display, your world literally stops for the alarm

[@SharkyBiterOfficial]

@@mauroghen dang

[@butterh2]

our bell satellite tv kicks us to an "OFF AIR" channel to show us the alert, as well as how low resolution and crusty the image is adds an extra creepy factor to it

[@0KXNE]

that’s nightmare fuel wtff

[@MultiPureEnergy]

Oh yeah, it’s my favourite sound to wake up to. Also fun when you’re working alone.

[@imcomingforyou3739]

The „real“ German one was actually just someone giving information about them wanting to test the alarm system, the time the drill started and how long it would be. So he just clarified that there is no actual threat :)

[@BerniePunished]

Same with the Russian one. But I guess you could say it's a real alarm because as a test it should use all the same stuff as the real thing.

[@MonsieurMoustachio]

@@BerniePunished close but that was no test, it was just some notice informing people about the test, that is going to happen some other time. and being from germany, these tests usually don't include eas, there are just air raid sirens going off and you getting a notice to your mobile phone

[@sgxbot]

@@MonsieurMoustachio IF you get a notice on your phone. That system isnt even working properly

[@barkxd]

@@sgxbot many phones have test alerts disabled by default In my experience the system does work but many don't enable the test alerts so they think it's broken.

[@sgxbot]

@@barkxd yeah i can tell you from Experience thats not the problem. I didnt get a alert. There is no option to enable it. People with the same phone who also didn’t enable anything because there is no option to do it got it. The system is flawed thats the problem

[@kiwimelown_]

I love how half of the fake emergency alerts are just some of the alert sounds used in aircraft systems

[@Dutch3DMaster]

At least they are way, WAY to easy to fake with consumer equipment and thus, could be way to easily interjected when there's nothing happening. The ones in aircrafts would be broader in frequency range most of the time by the way, to be less annoying, and better heard in noisy circumstances. That's why the ground-warning to pull up is such a broad, low-frequency, saw-tooth whoop-whoop "Pull Up, Pull up!" kind of thing.

[@kiwimelown_]

@@Dutch3DMaster I mean as someone who has their CPL, I was kind of surprised to learn this stuff too, but it’s moreso just common sense. Cockpits are very noisy environments and small alerts (such as A/P disconnect or Master Caution warnings) could be drowned out in the noise if we don’t pay full attention to everything that happens within our cockpits

[@benj.kerman609]

I think one of them was literally the MD-80 stall warning.

[@cloudy2262]

EAS alerts are legitimately one of the only things that scare me to this day. They’re just so unsettling and really trigger that fight or flight response

[@EEyoinkeek]

You cant speak more facts i guess its because eas is like worst case scenario so yea

[@CWINDOWSsystem32]

Hopefully flight rather than fight, since that's kind of the point if you need to evacuate.

[@EEyoinkeek]

@@CWINDOWSsystem32 lol

[@itsdokko2990]

well, those sounds are designed to be distressing, so you get in the mood for running away from danger

[@512TheWolf512]

that's the point

[@TheActualKingOfRailfanning]

As a Canadian. This alarm is indeed real. It’s terrifying and even more hearing it around your house. You’ve got like 6 phone ringing and you have to turn them all off. And it’s scarier at night.

[@howaboutno7429]

Can confirm as it has scared me more then once when I was not expecting it

[@gally25]

imagine you have 20 phones and hear that alarm IMAGINE

[@Dzod500]

i don't expect it some times. i get scared for like 2 seconds but after i get over it

[@coldiaultimatebase761]

It sucks when you are trying to sleep around Alberta during early summer. Constantly for a week every year I swear.

[@dark_disciple]

I've only heard it a few times for real outside of amber alerts and tests and yea its pretty scary

[@Kayto_Elioso5601]

I am a representative from Singapore, and I am here to say that the alarm you called “fake” is actually only sounded when we are needed to move to a shelter. The “real” one you showed is sounded when an important message is needed to be broadcasted. So, in reality, both alarms are real. I think the reason for believing that it is fake is because it is rarely ever used, as Singapore doesn’t get any missile threats or whatever Also Singaporean’s English is very bad, especially mine Edit : Hello all, l’m returning to this comment after like 10 months because of the overwhelmingly positive feedback! You guys are the best! Thanks for the thousands of likes as well! I was trying to be humble about my English, but clearly I shouldn’t have. This comment’s replies still put a smile on my face to this day. Thank you all once again. Stay safe and take care.

[@armaniii0]

No, it isn't. I believe Singaporean English is just as good as normal English. Love to Singapore 🇸🇬 from the United States 🇺🇲

[@shinobitreecko8442]

I will say your typed English is actually very good. Also the English on the TV sounded fantastic

[@armaniii0]

@@shinobitreecko8442 So is yours. Don't say that your English isn't accurate when it seems perfectly fine to me.

[@paper2222]

@@armaniii0 to me, singaporean english isn't bad english singaporean english is... basically english used in singapore

[@paper2222]

"in reality, both alarms are real." i would want proof of that alarm being recorded

[@JKTuber10]

Singapore’s Alarm: “Do not be alarmed, that’s only the literal point of the siren.”

[@jenniferwikler6692]

twin

[@sleepdeprivedvcr]

I’m glad someone actually proved the wrong ones wrong, ive seen a lot of misinformation on some of them and as an EAS enthusiast it was kind of ticking me off lol

[@Flamingbro69]

those ones that show supposed EAS alarms from like ancient times are pretty awful as well. Edit: For example, the supposed 1950 Indonesia Alert System was actually the music to a Georgian Television Station from the 1980s.

[@alextv2944]

The supposed "Mexico 1960" alarm is the fakest one I've ever heard.

[@garlicxi]

@@Flamingbro69 don't you love it when theres a fake ass eas alert from 1666

[@caranhaes6496]

It's totally serious. This guy graduated with a PhD in EAS 😂

[@soniclikesphone]

@@Flamingbro69 i heard “korea 1950 eas” its from s*cide mouse

[@Katepuzzilein]

The german one was the "warning day" message which was a test to see if our sirens and stuff worked. It was actually the first time since the cold war it was done and it failed miserably. We were also supposed to get push notifications but I didn't get any. I still don't think we have a working EAS

[@klaalter69]

as a german, i agree, this was just a test

[@klaalter69]

i got one

[@lezopi5914]

Actually the recent EAS on the phones worked really well in the circle of people i know. The thing ist, that they've said that it won't work on older phones or if you phone is turned off. And I think it's exacly the same system the UK uses according to this video. And well the sirens don't work everywhere. It depends where you are

[@FitzgeraldKrox]

@@lezopi5914 An Iphone 13 pro is the only phone that consistently refused to ring during both recent tests around me lol

[@juliecorn8998]

I actually got one and so did everyone in my area

[@rwrunning1813]

The fake ones are all legitimately so bad. The South Korea one is literally just dial-up.

[@MachineWashableKatie]

I mean in the US, our eas system has an audible data burst, though the fake korean one def sounds like the handshake part of a dial up connection

[@beebfajeejy]

the france, poland, sweden, portugal, indonesia, and india fakes are 100% all made by some random kid with fl studio's included 3xosc plugin. they're all raw clean tones made with basic waveforms and the occasional sweep. child's play to program. actual alert tones use far more complex sounds and have actual thought behind them.

[@Xenuos]

the fake germany one is just a bop tbh

[@polygonalgamez]

Greece is legit the cod nuke slowed

[@tense_rlofficial]

I mean it's like the loading meme ngl

[@sinueguillen5082]

As a mexican i can confirm that the seismic alert is scary AF, it can even trigger panic attacks on people and if that sounds at night it can make u shit yourself

[@CombineSoldier-Earth]

Si me pasa :v

[@JoaquinChaca-x6c]

Sismo 15 de agosto del 2007

[@ragnarok991]

Esa madre mata por si sola, luego te vuelve a matar el terremoto

[@Ilovesirensandtrains2016]

It doesn't happen in my hometown but when I'm in my room at night and I'm thinking about it... I COME DASHING OUT MY BEDROOM!

[@stephweasenforth7891]

What makes the US alert so goddamn terrifying (or at least unnerving) is that it’s just urgent enough to startle the living hell out of you. Especially when you’re so focused on something that you block out most sounds. And it’s a pretty standard alarm across the board, being used from anything like amber alerts to near deadly weather.

[@foldervtolvr]

I was chillin watching TV on my couch when I got a flash flood warning with the EAS alarm. Now that wouldn’t be scary if I didn’t live in Colorado where Flash Flood warnings are a normal occurrence, but they almost never interrupt TV. It’s usually just a weather watch notification. So I kinda freaked out, plus outside it was pouring rain. So I kinda got my stuff prepared to leave if I had to. There was no Flash Flood but good god that scared the shit out of me.

[@villainousthing]

yep, and it’s so annoying when you get an alert on your phone. i’ve been woken up by it at night once. i had to go in my settings and disable it.

[@Antonia-wz2zj]

imagine you are watching tv and you hear that alert because there is a massive violent tornado heading straight towards your town

[@willbarnhill]

I used to have the radio on while I slept when I was younger and whenever it would play the emergency alert sound it always woke me up and scared the living shit out of me

[@scapleanor]

I am canadian, I swear I have a mini heart attack everytime I hear mine😅

[@xMewWinx96x]

I put this in my "Watch Later" and forgot about it. It suddenly came on my television and when I heard the American EAS tone, I got confused. However, I quickly realized that it was just a video and not a real alert so I settled down. My cat, however, did not. He had very visceral reactions to almost every alert used, ranging from vaguely curious to offended to clear disgust/annoyance. It was hilarious to watch and I wanted to thank you for putting this video together and inadvertantly providing me with this entertainment.

[@nickpapadopoulos9978]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@babypiratesnapchat2]

Your cat has subitisratioerectiphobia

[@Account_abandoned-q7m]

Wtf​@@babypiratesnapchat2

[@Fentanyl_Fantastic]

Huh

[@ARandomMelMartinezFan]

@@babypiratesnapchat2what phobia is that

[@jadetuin9086]

I remember getting woken up in the middle of the night as a kid and ushered into the windowless basement because of a tornado. The US alert noise scared me so much

[@Lily_Sans]

I know, it's so scary. Almost every time I hear one of those, I might cry or just curl up in a ball i a corner

[@timmytacoburrito]

​@@Lily_Sans i get anxiety when i hear it. I know most of the time we just hear the Amber Alerts go off, but when i see the weather looking very unfavorable, my anxiety shoots thru the roof

[@Lily_Sans]

@@timmytacoburrito So do I.

[@CMHatem]

@@timmytacoburrito I’m mostly fine until I see a supercell (what forms tornadoes, I’m in Ohio) then I’d start running. It still is scary, makes you feel unsafe.

[@Gregariousness1]

@@timmytacoburrito i got it because a wildfire warning in my area, not fun

[@thisnotlaz]

16:12 Why is nobody talking about the music before the Israel alarm starts, imagine just chilling in with calm music while watching a show and then you get hit with one of the most terrfiying eas alarms ever.

[@CMSBerries_VR]

FR

[@ghenaroikron2661]

because it dont seem so terrifying

[@dauzlee2827]

It's interesting to see there's even Russian words. Maybe there's a lot of post Soviet immigrants to Israel and this is in 1991 of the first gulf war, the year also the Soviet nearing it's collapse

[@heelclubwrestlinghcw]

Being from the USA, I can confirm that though our eas alarm may sound like a dial tone to some who don’t live in the us, to experience it and ACTUALLY HEAR IT in a real emergency is absolutely horrifying. Even the phone one gives me chills.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Yeah, if hearing Spongebob music meant that there is danger of _fucking dying_ people will learn to fear it soon enough.

[@fly1ngseal]

yea fr

[@bryanshodeen9869]

This man's a Chad for for actually saying this also no pun intended for Chad because this video is country related

[@kitkatsinAlaska]

I've had this happen to me. Here's one I had: "TORNADO WARNING FOR... [[my county]], BROWARD COUNTY, MARTIN COUNTY. SOURCE: RADAR INDICATED. EVACUATE TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL." And then I saw something in the distance. Most terrifying thing in my life.

[@MewsOvercast]

@@kitkatsinAlaskafalse alarm or not? That must’ve been mortifying either way!

[@zkolii]

13:46 As a Chilean, I know most people say that the "woooahh woooahh woooah" sound is not scary at all, but trust me. Waking up at like 12am, while everything is dark, hearing people scream, dogs bark and cars go off, while this plays in the background, truly feels like it's the end of the world or something like that. NEVER again. (Also, fact that no one asked, what the voice in the alarm is saying is "Tsunami, tsunami, evacuate, evacuate to safety zone." and repeating itself from there on)

[@AstaGaming2000]

Te creo weon, la de ahora asusta un poco pero antes esta wea era kgarse de miedo.

[@moonzzzzzz]

@@AstaGaming2000 había una diferente?

[@moonzzzzzz]

yo que soy colombiana y nunca realmente me ha pasado nada así, solo he estado en 2 temblores chiquitos, no entiendo cómo hacen ustedes para mantener tanto la calma (obviamente sé que no todos son así pero sé que bastantes sí), los admiro mucho

[@AstaGaming2000]

@@moonzzzzzz es que esa la cambiaron y ahora es una alarma cualquiera de Tsunami

[@moonzzzzzz]

@@AstaGaming2000 por qué la cambiaron??

[@anonymouskultist]

The most informative part of this video for me was learning that tornadoes can happen in Australia

[@ding-dong_bing-bong]

Why wouldn't they be able to??

[@anonymouskultist]

@@ding-dong_bing-bong I always just made the (il)logical jump that "Typhoons and Hurricanes are different because of where they originate from, therefore the rest of the world must have a different name for tornadoes" 🤷‍♂️

[@sleeplessstudios7626]

Tornadoes are unfortunately more likely to happen more frequently and in more places. Thanks to our climate changing, the world's temperature shifting up, and various other factors, we're going to see more strong storm cells occuring in more places. Can you tell I'm majoring in meteorology and emergency management?

[@Kingreaver101]

Same bro

[@pumpkiinface]

Honestly, as an Australian, i was a bit confused as well. I think the 7 news exert was referencing now Cyclone Maria but its just that - a cyclone. No one calls them Tornatos in the general Australian public to my knowledge.

[@opalb9006]

the way the singapore one needs to finish an ad because 5 gum is more important than health and aafety

[@nachovyofficial]

How it feels to chew 5gum OOOOUUUUUAAAAAAAA

[@blockbull-e4128]

​@@nachovyofficialHow it feels to chew 6 gum *Real indo TV alarm*

[@wulzy8901]

how it feels to eat 8Gum

[@dondog3123]

Chewing gums are illegal in Singapore

[@jessicare5331]

"Meet the MP" looks interesting though.

[@Alorise1]

In Taiwan during bombing raid drills your phone plays a very loud noise and vibrates heavily, so you can imagine the absolute horror I experienced when I woke up late not knowing that there was a drill and having an alarm trigger my flight or fight response

[@s1rensooong]

holy shit dude that sounds horrifying

[@colterbae]

america had this once ! i don’t remember why but i was in my 6th hour in middle school

[@epicendergamer8535]

​@@colterbaei think that was when they accidentally sent out the alert if it was in like 2017 or 2018.

[@colterbae]

@@epicendergamer8535 no it was intentional. it also wasn’t 2018

[@realcirno1750]

I go into fight or flight mode when I get a phone call I couldn’t imagine if my phone started making eldritch noises

[@Twiddle_things]

I am TERRIFIED of unnatural sounds, especially repetitive ones. I am fascinated by things like the Buzzer and EAS alerts, which sadly, leads to me constantly being paranoid or feeling like ripping out my ears. I hope to overcome this fear one day, as I am fascinated by machinery, and sadly, machinery makes those dreaded repetitive sounds which I fear...

[@project_letters]

I'm scared of certain noises too, many fake ones are even freakier so I'm glad they're fake! I remember having to listen to the air raid siren for school and it freaked me out so much I never wanted to hear it again

[@Twiddle_things]

@@project_letters DUDEEE I hate the school drill siren! It gives me so much anxiety for no real reason 😭

[@coldiaultimatebase761]

The only thing to ever truly terrify me was unusual noises. ‘The old tape’ was the most terrifying thing I had ever heard in my life (then I overcame my fear)

[@avitld]

I go into fight or flight with any generally repetitive noise and I am also schizophrenic, having auditory illusions of EAS alarms in the middle of the night makes me want to rip my eyes and ears out.

[@dicedmeat7857]

There was one night I remember hearing a warning, my mom was working a late night job, and I just cried wanting to knock on the neighbors doors nearby. I HATE noises like these, but I feel the same, being so fascinated, even if I end up being terrified

[@Shinyarc]

The China one is so creepy to me. Imagine a disembodied voice from the sky basically telling you when the danger is about to arrive, just sitting there in anticipation

[@blakeingbad]

Not a disembodied voice from the sky, it’s city wide speakers. every city has them in case of natural disasters

[@thegoobert1]

quak

[@TezalTube]

@@blakeingbad Bruh

[@blakeingbad]

@@TezalTube what.

[@woahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoaj]

Yeah

[@MaFe-i7o]

12:11 in the Brazil one he's warning people about a dam that ruptured. Possibly the one that happened in Mariana. It was an immense tragedy with many people dead. The translation goes: attention, attention! This is a real situation of dam failure. Abandon immediately your residences, (find police barracks) or meeting point and stay there until new orders are given.

[@MagolorRR]

The chinese alert genuinely feels like some kind of insane nightmare I'd have, just being in a pitch black city while a loud voice echos through the sky and streets.

[@NightmareSports2k]

On god bro wtf if I was awake and heard them counting down to catastrophe I would have a heart attack

[@plumjet09]

Imagine walking down the street and just hearing somebody counting down

[@HRS8K]

All the ones with outside sirens sound like you’re in a dome and the PA System is warning you that you’re done will shortly detonate.

[@silly-goofy-little-goose]

Reminds me of the hunger games tbh, still freaky though

[@40susman]

chinese national anthem: the world is great sunshine is every where chinese EAS alarm: welcome to hell!

[@hugorobledo9433]

8:50 This alarm triggers nervous breakdowns among people, even if it's played through a phone speaker. Some citizens have seen how buildings collapse before their eyes.

[@azariahazariah4493]

If I may ask, what happened in Mexico that caused so much trauma

[@Octavin-vw8mm]

Mexico eas is ridiculous for me it's only BOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWO And the same sound every time..

[@cipherthedisaster]

@@Octavin-vw8mm mexican here- it is ridiculous, and i remember there were some petitions for it to be changed but as far as i know it has gotten nowhere, tho for friends in the capital city (where most earthquackes happen) i really do hope we dont get to hear it again.

[@Thedestroyer_Lion]

@@hugorobledo9433 There was also a major earthquake on March 28, 1787 that was around 8.5 on magnitude

[@azariahazariah4493]

@@hugorobledo9433 oh damn, that sounds terrifying

[@mapbot4158]

I used to listen to radio stations to fall asleep and occasionally they'd test the eas late at night, so sometimes I'd wake up to the US eas at 3 in the morning. A very unpleasant way to wake up to say the least 💀

[@baileyruel1985]

Same, it happens to me all the time, but I know it’s coming because the music speeds up to an ungodly level before going into the eas testing

[@marleyrios1573]

Bulgaria's alert systems gives me the creeps it made me shiver down my spine

[@HAAAAAAAAHHHHHH]

whatt, its the exact same thing for me, when i was like 8 i had a radio to fall asleep to and sometimes there would be the canadian eas for missing people at like 0:00 and i was fucking terrified

[@whatsaeuphonium9077]

I swear, and then the very muffled voice would also scare the piss out of ne

[@furrthecalicocat]

Same my radio woke me up at 7 am because of a tornado and i almost just thought it was apart of the song that was playing and went back to sleep

[@aryanswiichannel4667]

20:01 Some important information on the Dutch alarm: we hear this sound all over the country every first Monday of the month at 12am. The sound is used for all kinds of disasters, including fires and floodings. We also have a system called NLalert, which shows messages/info on all our phones and tv’s

[@Dutch3DMaster]

Smart correction there: If you have a smart-TV, yes, Otherwise, TV's are not included and will be just as silent as other devices not capable of receiving those types of messages. Or, as silent as my phone which has been a prime example of why the NLAlert is not a trustworthy replacement what so ever.

[@rockNjoyer2181xii]

when i was younger, i was often afraid of the EAS alarm in america because of it's straight tone. it just gave me this sense of fear. I even remember watching cat in the hat as a younger kid and then hearing this turn on. i saw a red bar across the screen with talking that i had no idea what was saying. i kinda just sat there not knowing how to react.

[@thefunkiestswag]

Im not from the US and I've never been in an situation like that but MY GOD DOES THAT SOUND TERRIFYING-

[@jessicadern4008]

@@thefunkiestswag it is but it's a lot less scary for me because my tv provider test the eas every week

[@henrydickerson9776]

It's two pure, discordant tones meant to elicit that response. Also, if you air that tone without it being an actual emergency, that's a $500,000 FCC fine. Fox Sports recently got hit with that for airing only 3 seconds of it for an advertisement.

[@LOBSTEEEER]

I feel ya because I had the same feeling. As a child I would hug my mother like a bear because I'm really terrified because little ones never know what will happen in the future

[@SayWONDERHOY]

POV: it’s just a test

[@Zivety]

0:12 USA 🇺🇸 0:46 Canada 🇨🇦 1:26 Japan 🇯🇵 2:24 Australia 🇦🇺 2:46 France 🇫🇷 2:55 Greece 🇬🇷 3:07 Italy 🇮🇹 3:33 Spain 🇪🇸 3:48 Taiwan 🇹🇼 4:10 Poland 🇵🇱 4:20 South Korea 🇰🇷 4:51 Iran 🇮🇷 5:12 Philippines 🇵🇭 6:17 Sweden 🇸🇪 7:07 United Kingdom 🇬🇧 7:36 Germany 🇩🇪 8:53 Mexico 🇲🇽 9:19 China 🇨🇳 10:07 Russia 🇷🇺 11:13 Czech Republic 🇨🇿 11:24 Brazil 🇧🇷 12:15 Bulgaria 🇧🇬 12:47 Malaysia 🇲🇾 13:36 Portugal 🇵🇹 13:45 Chile 🇨🇱 14:18 Lithuania 🇱🇹 15:00 Singapore 🇸🇬 16:27 Israel 🇮🇱 18:33 Indonesia 🇮🇩 19:19 India 🇮🇳 19:40 New Zealand 🇳🇿 20:01 Netherlands 🇳🇱 20:42 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 23:21 Denmark 🇩🇰 24:07 Ireland 🇮🇪 24:47 Iraq 🇮🇶 All of them are loud and blaring. But Japan's EAS is just a magical girl anime sound.

[@Comet-2011-W3-Lovejoy]

​@AnimationAndGamingYT Remastered (Anti Furry) how bad Israel is

[@davidlineweaver2263]

The video cautions that Japan uses several attention signals. The glissando tone is only for early earthquake warnings. If the earthquake were to generate a tsunami, they sound a more urgent alert tone for that. According to Wikipedia, the tsunami alert tone will actually turn on some TVs and automatically tune them to the local NHK station.

[@zypheox]

As a person who follows Japan earthquakes a lot, the alerts started to stress me out they scare me so much

[@JSins_]

Czech Republic’s “alarm” is just the USA alarm high pitched and sped up

[@henrineumann]

The israeli and Canadian alarms give me nightmares

[@dogefyedstudios5774]

It's crazy that we're not sure if the EAS systems are real or not. Governments need to release this stuff.

[@klombi_7231]

Wait you're right. That's terrifying. You wouldn't know if you were about to die, or if it was just some rando playing the sound.

[@n1gtwhisper158]

Well... it used to be more common when people used like... radios

[@WafflesssFalling]

@@klombi_7231 in your own country you know what it is though; and chances are if you’re visiting it likely wouldn’t be hard to recognize/ find out

[@timotheatae]

Most of the real examples are from tests with that exact purpose.

[@vulpes7079]

Why should they release that? People will know from tests

[@Jaminux]

shoutout to people with a lot of knowledge in very niche subject areas putting out content like this

[@iEcilpse]

a lot of “likely fake” EAS sounds are likely from mocks / EAS scenarios, especially because with the latter, it’s become much more common to see people make entirely unique alarms to use in videos. It’s interesting to see the accurate alarms, though.

[@ExtremeWreck]

I think the Greece could possibly come from an obscure PS1/PS2/PC game of some kind considering video games for those systems commonly had such sound effects.

[@MacrossSD]

Some of that is that, at least in the US (not sure about other countries) it is actually illegal to use the EAS alert tone frivolously. This includes using it in movies or TV shows. This apparently down to concerns about it becoming "background noise" so that people take it seriously when it actually happens. So entertainment companies have to find "soundalikes" that convey the EAS urgency without being the specific EAS two-tone attention sound.

[@vanguardian3439]

@@ExtremeWreck the greece one is either from mw2 (nuke sound) or defcon i cant remember

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@vanguardian3439 Probably Defcon 5 on the Sega Saturn or PS1.

[@vanguardian3439]

@@ExtremeWreck nah im thinking defcon by introversion

[@theofficiaIsteve]

gotta love how japan is all peaceful like "hey so there's an earthquake happening you might wanna get somewhere safe" but then they pull of the most insane EAS alert for a missle threat

[@chapeloflights]

You do imagine how often earthquakes happen in Japan, don't you?

[@theofficiaIsteve]

@@chapeloflights still kinda crazy

[@coolguy-wx6qv]

well i mean the last two times they had a missile shit got poisonous

[@kassundayooooooookok]

ミサイルを撃たれたのは北朝鮮のせいだよ translate It's because of North Korea that the missile was shot.

[@OfficialUKGov]

you should watch the whole thing and when a tsunami warning gets announced. chilling

[@IAmYou5517]

5:15 As someone who is from the Philippines, I just wanted say that it's not fake. I've heard this alarm multiple times in a day because of a flood.

[@RyneMcKinney]

Sounds like an alarm clock to me

[@koppii2]

This one is only used for phone tho

[@alitheakorogane]

Yeah! It's just that it wasn't sounded in TVs just like in other countries, it's just on our phones. It's so loud, it sometimes wakes me up when my phone suddenly rung this sound out of nowhere.

[@SlayasAlwaysMadapakir]

It is fake. Mga boang proud pinoy

[@ArcadeKidd28]

Its used on phones

[@Calatinus]

Signapore be like "Do not be alarmed. Here is our alarm. Please be alarmed."

[@kuroanimates]

To clarify, the real German one was a system test, the guy talking gave information about the test and said that there is no actual threat for the people. In Germany we usually use sirens to alert the public of natural disasters. Though the mentioned test in 2020 showed that the system is heavily malfunctioning and/or broken. This is because after the Cold War ended, Germany saw no need to maintain a dense warning system since the threat of war was gone. Edit 1: The real TV alert of Singapore has the same alarm sound as the fire alarm at my school.

[@klaalter69]

i agree as a german, it was just a test

[@samuelpadva4583]

​@@klaalter69 also as a German you couldn't hear anything

[@stewagner]

If you are interested in an short official video showing what the actual German alert system is supposed to work/sound like: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4alqKqBe8imh7c

[@DeadChanneI]

Imagine a singaporean at your school just hearing the basic fire alarm and going “OH SHIT”

[@cesarsaid6868]

Only one thing, the seismic alert in Mexico does NOT interrupt television programming. There are sirens on which will emit the alarm when the SSN detects an earthquake of considerable intensity.

[@pismak]

I think this message is from a popular app, but not the official warning at all. I have never seen an interruption at TV because simply there is no such system.

[@xe_nithhhh]

yea there's never been a full on interruption on screen but at least on news channels which are really the only ones ive caught the alert in there's still an "alerta sismica" bar on the bottom of the screen if you want to call it that? the broadcast still keeps going unless the signal goes out i guess

[@Tin60]

@notallenthecatloverwhat 💀

[@Tin60]

@notallenthecatloveroh my I feel bad for your grandma tho.

[@near5148]

​@notallenthecatloverimagine your TV konws you drink alot

[@mediocreprogrammer]

That Japan missile one is genuinely scary. It looks like it comes straight out of a creepypasta and I think it would 100% scare me (though not without reason, of course. )

[@akfc.6978]

It’s funny how the unnerving Japanese missile alert tone contrasts greatly with the cute-sounding Japanese earthquake alert tone😅

[@mediocreprogrammer]

@@akfc.6978 yeah

[@h2.t2]

@@akfc.6978 earthquake but like reversed would sound a little spooky

[@Algeriawindows69]

@@akfc.6978 yeah because earthquakes are pretty common they happen once over a couple of years in japan but a missile strick is alot more dangerous than an earthquake

[@dark_nyah_5041]

I live in Japan and I must say that the earthquake one isn’t that cute when you got woken up by that early in the morning 💦

[@raphgalban2007]

For the Philippines, there is no centralised system that I know of that uses an alarm tone of some kind. The closest thing I can think of is the flood sirens where I live. They usually sound when the water level reaches a specific point and it signals people to just gtfo and start praying the water doesn’t reach them. Another equivalent could be the text messages by the local government agency covering emergency and disaster relief. They send out alerts (not always with an alert tone) to your phone that notifies you of any calamity happening around you. For earthquakes, there is NO early warning system in place. The agency will only send the messages after the fact, notifying you of possible aftershocks incoming. Aside from that, the schools also follow this and ring the school bells or announce it via the intercom. News stations receive a notification from the agency and announce it to the public.

[@HypnoGaming36]

I can confirm about the flood thing, only experienced the earthquake thing in school in like August this year

[@itryen7632]

It's good to see people like you helping others distinguish from hoaxes. Niche topics like these are the ones, where lacky research leads to the biggest impact.

[@JustABoyo]

As a German I can confrim that the German one is indeed a mock, we do not have a system like that I asked the BBK (Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance) Each public station is responsbile themselves on how the warning looks like.

[@ech9817]

Aw man :( I was jamming

[@EPSouls]

Interesting fact

[@JustABoyo]

@@EPSouls Most stations will probably just read it out to you tbh

[@ArcadeKidd28]

@@ech9817 yah me to :/

[@leDespicable]

Yep, and it's very ironic. Germany abandoned its nationwide siren system in the 90s in favour of radio and TV warnings, yet they never actually implemented a system to relay those warnings reliably...

[@sh87_rionrion]

0:12 USA 0:41 CANADA 1:27 JAPAN 2:17 AUSTRALIA 2:46 FRANCE 2:56 GREECE 3:07 ITALY 3:34 SPAIN 3:45 TAIWAN 4:11 POLAND 4:21 SOUTH KOREA 4:52 IRAN 5:13 PHILIPPINES 6:17 SWEDEN 7:08 UK 7:35 GERMANY 8:50 MEXICO 9:19 CHINA 9:58 RUSSIA 11:13 CZECH REPUBLIC 11:25 BRAZIL 12:16 BULGARIA 12:47 MALAYSIA 13:35 PORTUGAL 13:46 CHILE 14:19 LITHUANIA 15:00 SINGAPORE 16:10 ISRAEL 18:32 INDONESIA 19:20 INDIA 19:30 NEW ZEALAND 20:01 NETHERLANDS 20:38 SAUDI ARABIA 23:20 DENMARK 24:08 IRELAND 24:46 IRAQ

[@boiga126]

thanks for this

[@Bacons-]

You deserve 👏.

[@AntiVape69]

Can always count on my fellow keyboard warriors

[@sketchr9258]

our hero

[@DA_TV71]

Damn it where’s Pakistan!?

[@TheLTG]

The Brazilian one is about a dam rupture and is not a nationwide system, it's more common in flooding and landslide-prone areas like in Rio, São Paulo, near dams or floodplanes, and varies from place to place, some transmit voice messages, some only sirens, some a mix of both, some even have flashing warning lights. There's also the recent use of phone alerts and SMS alerts, but quite limited in scope.

[@the_MrFloof]

As a Canadian, I can confirm that the alert sound is not only real, but also plays AT FULL VOLUME ON EVERY SINGLE CELLPHONE any time there's an Amber alert in your province 😫 MY EEEARS 😂

[@plumjet09]

Even if you’re wearing headphones?

[@the_MrFloof]

@@plumjet09 That's a good question! I think it plays on both the headphones and the phone's speaker, but I'm not sure 🤔

[@enjoitheworld]

as a fellow canadian, you are 100% correct 🤣

[@figeon]

It plays even if an amber alert is in a DIFFERENT PROVINCE. It’s ridiculous

[@givepassword]

@@figeonno it doesnt

[@laura401]

Here to confirm, as an Italian, that that was not our alarm system simply because it wasn't operative before this week: I recived the first test through text message just a couple of minutes ago. 😊

[@m1kk4s]

bella fra, mi sono preso un infarto quando era suonato il telefono lol

[@Eileeleedon]

The EAS alerts are supposed to be loud and somewhat startling. They’re mean to alert you no matter what you’re doing. They should scare you so bad you freeze, but there should be an initial hit of “PAY ATTENTION TO ME” before chilling out a bit.

[@joonlovescrabs]

meanwhile they send me into panic attacks

[@wikikpop7182]

​@@joonlovescrabs fr

[@AverageGermanGirl]

They should grab your attention, not scare the shit out of you

[@notsniped]

meanwhile the alternate of j-alert:

[@QF_Dan72]

They should alert you, not scare you to death

[@ciukm]

Eng: In Poland, these sirens are ambulance siren, while as a warning system we have "Alert RCB" (Government Center for Security), which sends text messages without any squeak and informs via public television with a black bar at the bottom Pol: W Polsce te syreny to syreny karetki, natomiast jako system ostrzegania mamy "Alert RCB" (Rządowe Centrum Bezpieczeństwa), które wysyła SMS-y bez żadnego pisku, i informuje poprzez telewizje publiczną czarnym paskiem na dole

[@richwater296]

Stuff like hail warnings, thunderstorm warnings, wind warnings, temperature warnings, animal vaccine warnings, etc.

[@magnumeis1228]

As a German I would definitely say the first alarm is fake. There are spelling mistakes and I saw the full alarm in a other video, where they say Germany is attacked by zombies. So the first one is definitely fake. The second one isn’t really an alarm. They only say that there is an alarm day where they test the alarms and you don’t have to panic.

[@madamebkrt]

It's the dumbest fake alarm and the fact that anyone could believe it's real astounds me.

[@TiledEditz]

I’m German as well and I wouldn’t have heard that in my early days. Also, I agree with you.

[@leDespicable]

The second one isn't an alarm, and that's part of the problem that Germany's warning infrastructure has. This is the legit format they would use for TV warnings in an emergency, which is just ridiculously ineffective.

[@marianokrause-merkel1840]

@@leDespicable so real und schade wir leben ohne eine EAS-System seit 90er

[@tspryaviation]

That first one may be fake but I low key enjoyed it. I wouldn't mind partying and dying happy if I heard that before I die instead of nothing. But that text was definitely Google Translated

[@TwistedFireX]

The Japanese alarm gives me goosebumps, such an innocent sounding alarm for a severe weather warning.

[@SuperCatman]

this video shows an earthquake alert, the yellow prefectures are the ones effected and the X represents the suspected epicentre

[@101jir]

@@SuperCatman Such a gentle sound for an earthquake

[@eminempreg]

Honestly I feel it makes sense. Especially in country thay has some of the most densely populated cities they probably don't want a very distressing sound going around, confusing and panicking people. So having something distinct, but not terrifying to warn people to listen up and get to safety makes more sense to me

[@Freda_Productions]

And the OTHER Japanese alarm? That one is 10x worse!

[@modernwarshipsgamer2123]

Same, it gives me chills during the night

[@emmaistired]

You are half right about France. As a French native, let me explain : the one you chose is for nuclear incidents. The one civilians will hear if anything is a big loid siren, with a very particular pattern (this siren still haunts me sometimes, as every first Wednesday of each month, schools have to make a "surprise" evacuation excercise. Good job on the video still, and sorry for the typos, phone's all glitchy ^^"

[@rat_king-]

Your country is a soon nuclear accident, it no wonder you have testing so frequency.

[@toadcrafter8770]

Nous il ne nous font pas évacuer

[@Detsukii]

On est pas évacué nous

[@emmaistired]

@@toadcrafter8770 @Detsukii vous étiez en privé ou en public ? Perso j'étais dans un collège/lycée catho, si ça se trouve, ça explique la différence. Soit ça, soit ils faisaient ça pour entraîner les profs à gérer les couloirs cosmo bondés

[@Detsukii]

@@emmaistired j'étais en public

[@TheAdventuresOfJimiJaden]

They’ve actually been using the USA EAS sound since 1980, the one used for phones. Not the first three beeps. Back then, I don’t think the EAS was fully approved yet. Don’t believe me, look up EAS 1980.

[@theedmee]

EAS came on board in 1997. Before that it was the EBS, which sounded like an old phone with multiple buttons pressed.

[@vonwolffen1166]

16:53 facts about Israeli EAS: - If it is short and with intervals of time is a possible rocket launch - If it is long and all the people stop is for Yom Hashoah, remembering the victims of the Holocaust, normally is in March or April

[@lambsauce3146]

For Malaysia EAS, it was tested if anytime our country is going to get hit by the Tsunami. In 2004, states like Penang and Kedah were hit by the Tsunami, causing casualties and deaths. It was the 1st time our country got this and since then there are times where there will be siren testings. The sirens are also used for the floods, and will be different sound based on how deep is the flood. The national broadcaster will show some ads about the sirens when there is floods.

[@23x89]

Damn I feel bad for y'all Malaysians when it get tested

[@epicKerBallze]

heard about the 2004 tsunami, but never heard of the fact that malaysia's EAS system was created becuse of the tsunami incident

[@zombiefied7628]

Kinda sounds like a plane. I can only imagine what 2014 tests were like.

[@nzmk99]

oh heavens no the bambers are plentiful

[@oh_noes]

@ponponponiko - voxrl idk boy. Bambi just appear outta nowhere

[@kalebbarker3732]

Fun fact, Sweden's Hesa Fredrik siren has a distinct pattern depending on the state or type of emergency, such as length between wails, or how long each wail is

[@MeitanteiKevin]

Same in germany :D just slightly different sounds I guess

[@stimkytheskunk3306]

Being Swedish, i can say that Hesa Fredrik can also be heard at a specific time every first monday on a new month

[@Foxrich99]

​@@stimkytheskunk3306 only every 3rd month, at 15:00

[@aki6605]

​@@stimkytheskunk3306Do you happen to know why that is? Are they testing it to make sure it works?

[@stimkytheskunk3306]

@@aki6605 Thats ecxacly why they do it - to test it so it works

[@rayperezblue9037]

As soon as i finish the video, I get an EAS alert on my phone that a flash flood is going to occur.

[@ArandompersonD]

Are you ok now? Plz respond

[@hardadouzakariae9540]

Are you still alive ?

[@rayperezblue9037]

Yes

[@rayperezblue9037]

I Live On the third floor, so it's not a big deal.

[@hardadouzakariae9540]

@@rayperezblue9037 Good 👍🏻what a coincidence

[@icarusclark1653]

the USA one is weirdly nostalgic, we used to have i believe weekly test warnings, so it just reminds me of the alarm interrupting my cartoons lol

[@TheUnderscoreSeven]

They still happen, though I've only heard them on the radio

[@BH-fr7hq]

The USA one gives me trauma

[@BigOlSmellyFlashlight]

same here

[@Skibidibugs]

Ikr in california we had to listen to it every week just cuz a huricane or earthquake was happening on the other side of the state or becuase a tsunami was in japan and they played the alert and closed the golden gate bridge in fear it could hit sanfransico and then hit campbell aka my city

[@O.lostwave]

in Nevada, they do it at 1:45 EVERY SINGLE NIGHT!

[@moonamoonz]

11:26 As an brazilian, the context of the brazil alarm (i believe it was the only time this alarm has ever played) happened to warn people to evacuate, in 2017 in 'brumadinho' a dam broke and several people were buried alive, there is videos on youtube showing the moment it happened. Until today the city has not been rebuilt and people still suffer with the tragedy. very scary and sad. :(

[@Tidestrider]

That is terrifying and sad. No matter what would have played to warn people, it would be sickening to hear again after that, if the initial pandemonium while trying to figure out what was happening and what to do wasn't enough. As an American there is always a lot to learn from what can happen outside our borders, but we often see little about it because it doesnt concern us. I appreciate you leaving some context because I like seeing the different perspectives of people, especially outside the states!

[@brianadickerson3813]

@moonimoon according to wiki, it says the Brumadiho dam disaster (that incident you were talking about) happened in 2019. Check it out -> en.wikipedia.org/Brumadinho_dam_disaster

[@ocanalsurpreendente]

Não foi em 2019?

[@alephorsmth9140]

@@ocanalsurpreendente não/no.

[@eusimm]

@@brianadickerson3813 wikipedia is not a trustable source

[@ProfessionalSandEater]

I'm Canadian, and I remember when I saw my first EAS. I was pretty young at the time, around somewhere between 4-6, and I remember it clearly. I was watching something on the TV, I've forgot what it was exactly but I think it might've something on Animal Planet or the Discovery Channel. It then went (automatically) to channel 2 (which was the weather channel.) I was confused, as the remote was on the coffee table. How could it have done that? I better change it, I don't care about the weather. Then the screen went blood red. There was white text with "EMERGENCY ALERT" in large letters, with 2 repeating tones blaring from the speakers, over and over, scaring me to my core. I huddled up into a couch pillow next to me, scared out of my mind. My mom came into the living room, confused. Luckily, unlike me, who could barely read, she could read what it said. Thankfully, it was just a test.

[@frostdash-aviation]

Same here, except I was 9 and was watching Netflix with my mom. The alert went off on my phone

[@onewhitedude]

I remember getting an emergency alert on our TV in 2015 (which was Bell) when I was 8, and I was absolutely terrified and ran down to the basement to the bedroom to hide.

[@Guitarforlife-kd1zy]

When I was seven I figured out they did a test every Tuesday. Then we had a tornado on a Tuesday and my mom wouldn't listen to me until the T.V. said very loudly TORNADO IN DOVER!

[@Dancingonthesun]

I was 21 and asleep when it first went off on my phone. It's so loud :(

[@YourRyeBread]

I have a somewhat similar story, except, when I saw the film Knowing (2009, so i was 8 and no i have no idea why my mother allowed me to go) in theatres, I actually became traumatized by the audio and have only now begun to heal mentally from it. I can last a whole 2 seconds now before having to turn the audio off! Controlled, yes, because if it's sudden I will still probably have a panic attack. I'm able to cope better than I use to be, but... trauma is trauma, you know?

[@MilqueeWayGaming]

Timestamps, in alphabetical order: Australia - 2:18 Brazil - 11:24 Bulgaria - 12:14 (when I see a tree that went extinct approx 300,000,000 years ago but I must remain calm) Canada - 0:40 Chile - 13:43 China - 9:17 / 9:50 Czech Republic - 11:12 Denmark - 23:18 France - 2:44 Germany - FAKE: 7:33 / REAL: 7:45 Greece - 2:55 India - 19:18 Indonesia - FAKE: 18:32 / REAL: 18:41 Iran - 4:50 Iraq - 24:45 Ireland - FAKE: 24:06 / REAL: 24:17 Israel - OLD: 16:08 / CURRENT: 17:23 Italy - 3:06 Japan - 1:25 / 2:01 Lithuania - 14:18 / 14:41 Malaysia - 12:58 Mexico - 8:47 Netherlands - 19:59 New Zealand - 19:29 Philippines - FAKE: 5:12 / REAL: 5:42 Poland - 4:09 / 5:04 Portugal - 13:35 Russia - 9:57 Saudi Arabia - OLD: 20:36 / CURRENT: 21:56 Singapore - FAKE: 14:59 / REAL: 15:08 / 15:38 / 15:55 South Korea - 4:20 / 4:28 Spain - 3:32 Sweden - FAKE: 6:16 / REAL: 6:26 Taiwan - 3:44 United Kingdom - 7:07 / 7:19 United States of America - 0:09

[@Samgratt]

As a Canadian, I have ptsd from the eas alarm. Whatever which channel you are on, it pops up and plays at the loudest possible volume

[@mx.sinistxr]

bruh im american but i had headphones on when an amber alert went off and i about shit myself 😭

[@epic_person57]

As an italian i had the exact same experience

[@DiscoRaptorpaw]

@@mx.sinistxrBRO REMEMBER THE TEST PPL WERE FREAKIN OUT ABOUT

[@therealchicane]

@@DiscoRaptorpawguys is that disco raptorpaw

[@abrahamvalle4108]

As a Mexican, it’s kind of the same here. Ever since the earthquake from 2017, I am always scared when the alarm sounds

[@joebarton4947]

In parts of the US where tornadoes are frequent, outdoor sirens are also used, I've heard that this is also true in West coast cities in case of a tsunami

[@drydoidoi1593]

Here in Ohio they test the outdoor sirens on the first Saturday of every month

[@Cat_578]

@@drydoidoi1593 Same in Chicago (Illinois) but on the first tuesday of each month

[@drydoidoi1593]

@@Cat_578 nice.

[@djjablonsky3367]

I remember in my town, they tested them every tuesday at 11:00 am

[@gregh6961]

Yes, San Francisco has a tsunami/air raid siren that gets tested every Tuesday at noon. It's a horn, followed by an announcement in English, then in Chinese

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Regarding the Singapore one: It is commemorated every year on February 15. It is the day in 1942 that the British colonial government surrendered Singapore to the Japanese. Why did they select this day for Total Defence Day? To make the point that Singapore was caught off guard when the Japanese invaded. The Brits thought the Japanese wouldn't be able to take Malaya becuase they viewed the terrain as impassable...the Japanese proved them wrong. And then when it came to the invasion of Singapore, they expected the Japanese to come from either the northeast or the south and thus they set up naval guns along the harbor...the Japanese invaded from the northwest on bikes Total Defence is based on the premise that every aspect of society contributes to the collective defence of the state, so Singapore can remember its importance and can better defend itself against potential enemies. I'm glad I got to go to Singapore back in June 2018, had a lovely time

[@tony1770]

kim jong-un giving history class

[@azariahazariah4493]

thanks kimmy

[@AmeliaIsNotKrista]

Dang if I need a history teacher like you-

[@F00TBALL_3DITS-f8q]

Thx Kim never thought I would say this

[@baguetteYT20]

thx bro ive never seen a bad person giving history

[@ximsvelart7116]

9:12 one thing more, this is only used for the capital, México city, and it's because there the earthquakes feels even worse of where were produced, the consequences of building a city on a lake

[@K86Music]

I'm Iranian but was not born in the days of Iran and Iraq war, but from what I saw and asked from people I know and born from that time period, yes it is real. It was streamed as a warning for Iranian people to be informed that there are missiles coming to Tehran and other cities and be ready for the strikes. As it writes "۱۳۵۹ شهریور ۳۱" which is a Persian date, it is the date when the war started (if I'm not wrong). But in conclusion, yes indeed, it's real.

[@vaqloli]

I was looking for a cmt like this to see if it was real lol-

[@Da_Rivulet]

so is it?

[@K86Music]

@@Da_Rivulet Yes it is, I saw more sources and I confirmed it.

[@dunjaasalmasi2017]

I've asked my dad and this is true, he was a child and could recall, that to this sound they made an announcement.

[@dunjaasalmasi2017]

I'm sorry that you had to witness this time.

[@xymaryai8283]

it still baffles me that North Korea actually launched missiles at and over Japan and they actually had to use the missile alert system

[@SgtStevePH]

Japan is in close proximity to North Korea, so this isn't an isolated incident for them, and certainly not the last

[@PrograError]

well... rocket launch like going to the tropics better than the poles, so DPRK always launches it over japan...

[@heyitshunter8010]

I am SO HAPPY that somebody is finally spreading light on these and pointing out that a lot of these are mocks.

[@ChristopherDoesStuff2]

Imagine if you were listening to your country’s eas but then when you pause it you can hear it in the distance…

[@d-man4485]

7:07 The fake UK alert is used in the USA for missing persons alerts (at least where I live). It skips the first short beeps, and just repeats the long beep three times, similar to here. While the USA EAS alarm still freaks me out, the missing person’s alert one is really chilling, knowing that someone’s gone missing, especially an amber alert (one for a kidnapped child), though the most common of these is a “silver” alert (an elderly person determined to be either senile or at risk if they aren’t watched goes missing, they’re usually found within the next few hours to a day though)

[@Lily_Sans]

I hate those they scare me a lot.

[@DanTDMJace]

In my area, amber alerts are WAY more common. Kind of sad, really.

[@fadoks7075]

That sound is the default sound for Cell Broadcast warnings on iPhones (and maybe Androids, don’t really know what sound they use). It can be used for anything but I’m assuming the US mainly uses it for amber alerts, in Germany they recently implemented it for all types of emergencies

[@DogsRNice]

@@fadoks7075 the sound itself was designed to be as annoying as possible and I believe in the us it's required for all phones to be able to relay an emergency message using it

[@a.stranger89898]

@@DanTDMJace same, where I live (NJ), I don’t think I’ve seen a silver alert in my life so far, more so amber alerts. I agree, this is really sad

[@Devo57]

I just love that the fake ones all gotta use special unique sound effects to be like America and Canada’s EASes when most of the real ones are just normal sirens

[@red_skies80]

Can't fix the system if it ain't broke

[@LegionEagles22]

fellow schafrillas fan :)

[@zireapz5756]

8:10 that’s not the German EAS💀 that’s just an Announcement that there is an official warning day on which warnings are tested.

[@bronos38]

0:12 Trust me, this sound happened months ago and it was played during the soccerball live, so the Verdict is Real

[@STH2008]

For real. I heard this sound like 3 times when I was in Florence!

[@gl1tchygreml1n]

There's been a trend of people making videos with "old EAS alarms" using the most random songs, like Daisy Bell and FNAF music, and almost always saying they're from times before CONELRAD was created (I believe CONELRAD was the world's first emergency broadcast system, right?) and I'd love to see a video debunking that as well and maybe saying when the first emergency broadcast for the most commonly used countries was (edit: fixed a typo)

[@outlawgodxd7804]

Yeah

[@OklahomaMan]

I'm pretty sure I caused that and I'm sorry

[@gl1tchygreml1n]

@@OklahomaMan I'm not mad

[@Paladin_Krieger]

@Zed F one said it was from 1566 💀💀💀

[@twilitsunset7098]

I remember one for Estonia where the song used was literally taken from Granny. 🤦

[@guiliajohnson9141]

As a German, I believe that the first EAS shown for Germany is not real. As far as I know, there is no EAS in Germany (because I do not know anyone who has heard it and you can not find anything else about it), but only the sirens, a warning app, announcements or messages via social media. But please correct me if I should be wrong. But I do think we should have an EAS alert. (especially this one 😖) because (in my opinion) not everyone has a mobile phone or the warning app NINA and it could reach more people on TV.

[@Taha_57]

wieso betrügst du bruder

[@mtge]

es stimmt wirklich, nur sirenen oder handy

[@lolidk563]

Hmmm ok

[@spinning_peridot3673]

The first one is fake. I mean, the text is full of typos and doesn't make any sense. And the sound is also fake. The problem is that after the cold war, sirens haven't been maintained anymore (or rather the individual municipalities have been in charge of maintaining them, but they didn't have any money). Over the recent years, sirens have been re-installed and basically serve as an EAS system. In addition, there is the NINA app you mentioned, but it doesn't have any specific "sound" to it. What is actually done, initiated after the heavy flooding from 2021, is that the "Cell broadcasts" are prepared right now. This is probably the closest thing you can get to an actual EAS system in Germany, apart from the sirens.

[@Bitsy_thegamer]

@@spinning_peridot3673 oh about germany

[@Sketciz]

There use to be a tornado near my town in the United States. A whole bunch of cars and news reports flew past my house. America may not have the scariest alarm. But it tell you, this was nearly night and hearing that sound all over my family's phones and playing loudly on the TV was absolutely terrifying.

[@abbyhurd]

I panic when the late night tests happen as i keep my tv on all night

[@BiologicalClock]

The USA EAS sound doesn't scare me unless we're already in a tornado alert, but hearing the sirens go off is terrifying.

[@Sketciz]

@@BiologicalClock it's kind of scary cause after that alarm this stupid man with a glitch voice is all like *THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE-*

[@matthewwysong644]

The American alarm is built to get your attention, not to drive you into blind panic. The Canadian alarm is pretty good at the whole blind panic bit.

[@soupcangaming662]

@@matthewwysong644 I mean, EAS alarms kind of automatically activate your flight, fight, freeze response due to the unexpected BZEEEEEEP. BZEEEEEP. BZEEEP. BUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BZEEP. BZEEP. BZEEP.

[@anneocampo1815]

Singaporean here. The alarm that you said is "fake", is actually real, one of the 3 that can be used

[@diggasinparis]

As another Singaporean, i can confirm.

[@magpiecore]

20:01 i love when tourists come over and get scared shitless when they hear this not knowing we do a test every month. the phone alerts that come with it are fun too, especially in class

[@basedhalo]

In Poland we still have air raid siren from cold war and it's a good system so we don't change it. Also every 1st of August for the aniversary of Warsaw uprising, every single air raid siren everywhere is playing and it sounds like all hell let loose. And if you forget about it (or worse, you are a tourist) you can get scared pretty bad.

[@plumjet09]

What day each month. Asking for a friend and am definitely not going to go on a vacation with my family to the Netherlands and freak them out using this.

[@PrograError]

@@basedhalo in Singapore, we do test bi-yearly on 15 February, in commemoration of Fall of Singapore and Total Defence Day, and 15 September . tho sometimes you just don't hear it in certain places...

[@robotnik0889]

@@plumjet09 Every first monday of the month at 12 pm

[@plumjet09]

@@robotnik0889 ok

[@MagicianStevey]

As someone who’s seen the Canadian EAS alarm at night for a tornado warning, it is freaking terrifying.

[@notdamienn]

When?

[@cadenbarnfather1434]

At night silly

[@dpdfpdffgp]

@@notdamienn at night silly

[@commitarson6583]

At night silly

[@Eaw-Enjoyer]

i agree that shit makes my heart drop

[@theidiotwithinternet]

16:26 is absolutely BONE chilling man. Hearing that in the middle of the night would be up there with one of the scariest things on the planet

[@PaGDu333]

How many languages are that???

[@shepard2226]

if i heard that alarm at night i would just give up and let whatever danger there is kill me

[@miketerrence4019]

@@PaGDu333 6 languages

[@Blueyzafiro]

Me: I'm gona Die, I'm done, God I'm going for you 😞

[@believer431]

I love your pfp 😂😂😂

[@kiki_davis]

As a Canadian this emergency alert would always scare me like one time you're just watching tv and then suddenly you see a red screen and hear the alarm. And it's so loud too its even worse when you're sleeping at night and then you hear the emergency alert at around 3am and most of the time its just a drill

[@PatchworkRose567]

Is so eerie that Japan uses such gentle tones for its tsunami alert compared to its missile warning. It makes it feel that a natural disaster is nothing to them compared to an equally devastating man made disaster

[@davidlineweaver2263]

That was actually the earthquake early warning tone. The tsunami warning tone is much more urgent-sounding.

[@Hexarth]

Japan has a bad history with man-made disasters

[@notsniped]

its like the japanese eas reminding you very calmly that you have a really slim chance of survival

[@vulpes7079]

The Brazilian alarm is specifically a dam collapse/breach alarm. Standard only for the state of Minas Gerais from what I know. Other states have other alert systems

[@rafaelasabchucalovato9439]

O resto confia na vinheta do Plantão Globo 😂

[@inspiredbubbles0304]

​@@rafaelasabchucalovato9439 hahaha pensei a mesma coisa

[@Xnex1]

Alguem tinha que falar mesmo

[@NathandeLucca]

Cara, eu n sabia q tinha esses alarmes no Brasil.

[@vulpes7079]

@@NathandeLucca é só decidir ir morar no lugar errado que tu descobre rapidinho :')

[@afloppyfish200]

As a Singaporean, the Alarm for both the fake and the real one are in fact real! I found the video you have referenced from, and if you continued watching, you would know that Singapore plays different sirens based on the message that the Singapore Civil Defense Force is trying to send.

[@HedgehogMania]

0:46 Jumpscare even scarier than Five Nights at Freddy's lol

[@endlessseek8164]

The story behind the video of the germany eas alarm is kinda wholesome “Yo, can I test the EAS?” “Sure, just let people know you’re just testing it out”

[@EifelBlaulichtTV]

It does make sense, if you realise that behind our EAS there's also sirens. And those thingies are gonna blow your ears off.

[@KyleKartan87]

The sounds that the mobile phones ands sirenes made were still terrifying thogh :D

[@arlynnecumberbatch1056]

I wonder if same goes to the philippine one, you can hear the ppl in the bg counting down

[@alphatrolltv15]

​@@EifelBlaulichtTVlitterally USA EAS: * LOUD BEEEEEEP * * LOUD BEEEEEEP * * LOUD BEEEEEEP*

[@simonponn]

In Germany you get alerted by Siren, phone, television, radio and social media, it is also being tested that the Control center for emergency services (not police, the one for Firefighters and ambulance) to speak directly through the Radio and cutting of the regular program, but I don't know if it was tested on the public yet

[@MoonStudioAnimation]

10:48 Here's a translation: "Says the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Ulyanovsk region. A technical check of the central warning system for the population of the region for civil defense is being carried out." I am russian and i never seen this, and i know this screen now.

[@TheMaplePrivate]

Most of the non-existent eas alarm sounds come from very discrete and old musical piece, games, and tv station sign off. Because not every country has an EAS system that even makes a noise. They do these kinds of stuff just because it gives them views and it sorta irritates me, thank you for spreading the truth

[@martins.2100]

Yes, Spain alarm comes from The Purge, France from BEEP sound for rude words and old EAS Alarm comes from orchestral musical themes, Half-Life trumpet sounds, FNAF music, Mickey Mouse s….. mouse creepypasta ending, etc

[@OrangeoMC]

Yeah like that one Pacific Island one- I think it was Tuvalu? That was just a song called Bloodpop reversed

[@RochRich.]

Most countries: 🚨 Some countries: 🕺 Japan: 😊 China & Israel: 💀

[@Someone36272]

trust me the japanese one is creepy when it's in real time, as someone who has exprienced it

[@trumpetmasta92]

In Texas for an amber alert, the typical alarm beep would happen followed by a terrifying chord like from a horror movie. Then a message would be play describing the victims, the person who took them and description of the vehicle.

[@yeenobabino]

In Wisconsin, we only get Amber Alerts on our phone. It’s the same mobile alert system as shown for the UK.

[@XDaCatto]

I've heard what you're talking about, and it's the only eas alert that scares me anymore

[@Dsand23]

@@yeenobabino Minnesota sounds the same alarm beep as normal, with a notification on everyone's phone explaining the details.

[@sleeplessstudios7626]

In Arizona, we would pretty much have like two reasons for the alarm to go off: Amber Alert for a custody case gone wrong or a dust storm. It was almost always something so mild and minor that I just learned not to care about alerts anymore. I've moved to Washington state recently and now there's actual disasters I need to watch out for. It's going to be kind of difficult relearning the severity of that EAS sound.

[@julia-ev7od]

that’s crazy in pa your phone vibrates and makes the same sound as the uk eas noise and a notification pops up w the license plate and car of the kidnapper and the victim’s info

[@JustABoyo]

ALSO I LOVE THAT SOMEONE IS FINALLY RECTIFING THESE "RATING EMERGENCY ALERTS" VIDEOS, they were triggering me so much

[@madamebkrt]

RIGHT? Glad it's not just me who was pissed off by the lies lmao.

[@JustABoyo]

@@madamebkrt YESS, I believe it wasn't necesarrily lies but moreso that the people who reuploaded these sounds and videos didn't have a clue about the source material and didn't care to investigate. Because these things seemed to be trending for a while

[@poppythedogofwonders]

Do not say 'triggering' when you mean 'Irritating'. Triggered is a genuine medical term and it's been a real damn hassle trying to get people to treat it as a medical term again.

[@sleeplessstudios7626]

​@@poppythedogofwonders As someone with professionally diagnosed PTSD, I've just given up on trying to get people to use a different term. Don't bother trying to change it.

[@JustABoyo]

​@@poppythedogofwonderssry it's just part of the language ig

[@user-qf5kl6cv2y]

As a German the "evidence" for the German eas you had wasn't very helpful since it is just an announcement for a day where the EAS will be tested

[@faeriemachine]

Oh, I wasn't aware, thank you! Hopefully I can find a real EAS of it sometime

[@user-qf5kl6cv2y]

@@faeriemachine You're welcome

[@erikgag]

​@@faeriemachine there is none. they would just cut to breaking news, alert Via an App and make Radio Broadcasts. sometimes there is still an Siren alarm wich is one Minute of Continuos Howling. it advises you to turn on Radio and TV s

[@Ribulose15diphosphat]

And the Punchline: The Test was a horrible failure.

[@tailor9864]

@@erikgag 1 minute of continuous howling is the all clear signal. The signal called Warnung-der-Bevölkerung (Warning of the population) is one minute continuous on and off. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHvOo4VniKiceMk