[EAS] EAS and WEA usage during the protests/riots/civil unrest

[Alex Hanson]

Do you have a link to where they posted this? I was just wondering the other day about this. In Denver over the weekend a very generic severe thunderstorm warning (I assume due to protests) was sent to phones, but the alert was *very* general. No information about the hazards of the storm at all.

The alert said something just like "severe weather in Denver. Take cover now."

We also had alerts very early in the evening (maybe 6 or 7p) about 10pm curfews in Colorado.

Alex

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 10:30 Ed Czarnecki <ed.czarnecki at digitalalertsystems.com> wrote:
>FEMA recently posted a factoid regarding EAS/WEA usage during the civil unrest around the country.  They reported that, as of June 4th, 2020, authorities issued 30 EAS alerts, and 155 Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) messages across the United States.  These alerts provided information about curfews, road closures, and public transportation cancellations.

>I looked through logs sampled from across the country, and it appears that CEM has been the most frequently used event code for these type of informational/warning messages.

>Ed

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