[EAS] The smoking... button?

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

This morning the Washington Post offers an annotated screen shot that purports to have been the point of origin of Saturday's foul-up.  

<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/16/that-was-no-wrong-button-in-hawaii-take-a-look/?utm_term=.7eb0c6e2cf5b>

For the record we should note that Hawaii actually sent IPAWS a cancellation of the false alarm in just five minutes... but since EAS lacks an equivalent "never mind" function, it wasn't perceived until an explicit countervailing message was sent (as a CEM, so as I hear) roughly forty minutes later.

Note also at the bottom of the WP article that another false alarm apparently occurred separately ("on Tuesday") over NHK in Japan (see <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-japan/japan-issues-false-alarm-over-missile-launch-days-after-hawaii-alert-gaffe-idUSKBN1F514S?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews>).

Art Botterell
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