In the Netherlands there is a Emergency alert (every 6 months) test together with the montly air raid siren check. Everytime this happens the siren test is even more scarier.
This was fun while most of the class was out on break, 4 of us trying to switch off about 30 tablets/phones left in bags that wouldn't shut up, and of course with so many it's difficult to hear where exactly the sounds are coming from
@@munehaus Not just EU-Alert, it's the standard Cell Broadcast alert sound. Only very few countries in the world opted to use a different warning sound for their Emergency Alerts, the rest uses this one.
Just like every other place that has is too! When tsunami hit japan two years ago it gave the same warning, same for when COVID hit places that had it went off like us
God, I can't think of anything worse than knowing that nuclear missiles are about to go off over London and you're trapped in Euston, the worst of all London terminus stations.
@@Nathan-rc2oiI didn’t know. I think my dad told me once but I forgot. I’m also a telecoms engineer so it was weird how I’d don’t really know about it. I don’t really check the news.
Nope, same goes for Germany. The UK and Germany both dismantled their siren systems in the 90s after the end of the cold war, and never implemented an efficient warning system to replace the sirens. Germany also only recently introduced these phone alerts as a reaction to the deadly Ahr valley flood of 2021 that cost over 100 lives because of the lackluster warning infrastructure.
That buzzing sound from the station alarm system sounds almost identical to the buzzer alarm of the United States Emergency Alert System. Luckily, theirs does not have the grating racket before the tones activate.
@@danielwortley2241 This. The test was conducted using one of the lower warning categories, which use the phone's volume settings. Only the highest warning category overrides all volume settings and goes full blast, since that one's meant for extreme emergencies that require immediate action
@@thedemographicschannel611 .... Apparently alot of people in the UK purposely had their phone on silent....some even switched it off about ten minutes beforehand, and switched it back on ten minutes after the alert time. I did neither, but I never got a sound alert, just a text message which flashed up a 'warning: test alert'. That the person on it had an American accent just compounds things. Not only did the government not manage to make the alert that effective - they couldn't even use a British accent. This government can't do ANYTHING right. They manage to botch things up continuously. After a while it gets very wearing.... knowing that your country just isn't functioning properly anymore.....and the government doesn't seem to care.
The sound is officially called SOS in the Cell Broadcast specification, at least the one used for EU-Alert. I don't know why, since it's actually not the full SOS pattern. You'll have to ask whoever came up with it when the system was first implemented in the US, the Netherlands and Japan, although Japan uses different sounds.
@@jackjackum It actually doesn't have to be new, Android and iOS have supported these alerts since they were first implemented in several countries over 10 years ago. The problem is that many Android manufacturers as well as Apple handled the implementation of the alerts on a country-by-country basis, meaning that phones only supported emergency alerts in the countries that used them at the time of the phone's release. If a country introduced these alerts years later, the phones sold before that point in time didn't support alerts there, while all newer phones that came out after did. There are only a few manufacturers that never did it this way, namely Honor, Huawei and Motorola. On their phones, it works pretty much everywhere, although they may have the American names for the different warning categories.
Am I the only person that never got an alert haha? I was even aware of it before hand as I’ve a mate at work that was talking some bollocks about us getting nuke warnings😆never got one. Infact my younger brother was the only one in the whole family that got one. I’m on o2.
I remember this happening while I was heading home with my mom and my siblings, I was out of town so it really shocked me, as I didn't know it was happening. Luckily it was a test.
Meanwhile three mobile customers are still waiting for their test alert 😂
I just realised all of my house have 3-
Hahaha
Does run on a set network... It uses the whole
The only life-threatening emergency near me is ALDI closing before I can get there.
TRUE
Omg like when you left too let to get ur mums shopping but you don’t get to ALDI’s on time before it closed
Great catch! All the phones going off simultaneously sounds EPIC!
Didn’t to me IRL
Idk about epic. Seems kinda messed up to me...
There's no way a real person would type this comment
hows it epic
@@aakrueger that’s because this isn’t a person it’s a pig mate
In the Netherlands there is a Emergency alert (every 6 months) test together with the montly air raid siren check. Everytime this happens the siren test is even more scarier.
In Finland every first monday of a month at 12 o' clock there is a nationwide testing of sirens, so basically every month
I once forgot and I live near airbase in vreedepel
It’s scared shit out of me
i was studying and that gave me an absolute heart attack
But not a fatal one obviously.
@@kevinmcmullan1827 actually very fatal, im very much dead right now.
@@regallx3917oh my condolences
@@regallx3917 H-How are you texting this if you're dead? Are you... A GHOST?!?! 😱👻
@@S-CB-SL-Animations He just build different, like otherworldly diferent
I've always wanted to see/hear an emergency alert going off on so many phones.
I wonder if this happened in a phone store
Come to an airport in Oklahoma in May.
The sound is just so satisfying
This happened to me too while my phone was silent and I was watching the 107 bus route Nice one Omari
This was fun while most of the class was out on break, 4 of us trying to switch off about 30 tablets/phones left in bags that wouldn't shut up, and of course with so many it's difficult to hear where exactly the sounds are coming from
I feel bad for you lot imagine having Sunday school
And the alarm only lasted for 10 seconds why would you need to turn it off…..
Bs story
Umm what gives you the right to go through other people's bags?
Never heard sm bs in my life
It sounds like exactly like the phone alerts we have here in the US
Yeah, even has a US accent.
@@eh1702 Thats only if you have it set to an "American" Accent. The normal message only comes with beeping and the Alert.
It's the standard default "EU Alert" sound. It can be changed, but it seems the UK has not requested a custom tone.
@@munehaus Not just EU-Alert, it's the standard Cell Broadcast alert sound. Only very few countries in the world opted to use a different warning sound for their Emergency Alerts, the rest uses this one.
Just like every other place that has is too! When tsunami hit japan two years ago it gave the same warning, same for when COVID hit places that had it went off like us
It woke me up from my afternoon nap 😆
Satisfying but surprising and scary at the same time.
Nah, Do you remember the alert sirens that went off periodically in the 80s? Now that was scary
@@TrenyCwm I wasn't alive then.
@@harrisonrobins3689 What sort of excuse is that?
@@TrenyCwm Are you in a different conversation to him or something? That makes no sense.
@@jackjackum lol my bum said it!
Was interesting during the marathon. Heard it echoing around but was so knackered it didnt register.
Bro i remember this it was like so hyped up for some reason idk
That’s a very nice video
On my phone, I went to settings, then passwords and security and turned emergency alerts off. I've survived 42 years without and happy to be without.
God, I can't think of anything worse than knowing that nuclear missiles are about to go off over London and you're trapped in Euston, the worst of all London terminus stations.
Yea, Waterloo is much more aesthetically pleasing. 😁
Only 1 out of my 4 phones in my house went off and that was the work phone 💀🤣
IMAGINE BEING THER WHILE THAT HAPPENED
the way everyone just looks down at their phone lol
This happened to me when I was at home today
RIP main departure boards
I'm amongst the number whose phones didn't get it. Interestingly i did get the Spanish one when i went there for my holiday
so surreal
Due to terror attacks in recent years I was expecting at least some panic in this vid but everyone seemed relatively unbothered
everyone was warned for like a month prior that it was going to be set off so most people were ready for it
@@Nathan-rc2oiI didn’t know. I think my dad told me once but I forgot. I’m also a telecoms engineer so it was weird how I’d don’t really know about it. I don’t really check the news.
it's like when people put an alarm on every phone in the apple store
I was in the cinema just heading to my seat to watch the Mario Movie when it went off
Excellent ❤❤
how the f is it excellent in any way
that alert scared the shit out of me
Me casually watching super Mario and then alarm goes off
Has UK really not had a emergency alert system like that until recently?
Only TV/radio
Nope, same goes for Germany. The UK and Germany both dismantled their siren systems in the 90s after the end of the cold war, and never implemented an efficient warning system to replace the sirens. Germany also only recently introduced these phone alerts as a reaction to the deadly Ahr valley flood of 2021 that cost over 100 lives because of the lackluster warning infrastructure.
That buzzing sound from the station alarm system sounds almost identical to the buzzer alarm of the United States Emergency Alert System. Luckily, theirs does not have the grating racket before the tones activate.
It’s the phones… the EAS.. read the title
Bc it is , every other place that has it makes the same sound , when COVID hit Koera Middle East countries japan had it
I could swear mine never went off.
"A new UK government service" spoken in that proud to be British royal American accent
I just thought it was the fire alarm, and not the alarm that is to warn me the world is about to end
I was just watching tv and then this went off
I was on the 41 at Turnpike Lane when this happened 😂😂
It happened to me on the 321.
Rip to those that had headphones
Happened to me whilst working
I had this on my phone too
Oh shame I missed it, I wasn't alert !!🧐
That is so funny! Mine didn’t work 😂
Tallyho Omari. This must of been a right laugh, when the alert whent off in Euston station.
Three customers carrying on oblivious
I got so scared I was just minding my business at King’s Cross St Pancras
i was in an inflatable park when this happened LOL
I experienced it but not outside
I had that on my iPhone 12 and it really made me jump 😂
Let’s hope prisoners who have them up their backsides remembered to turn theirs off.
I've got one in at the moment, and I'm not in prison.
Are there 4g/5g phones small enough for that?
I’m so afraid about it I nearly cried out.
Saw you on the elizabeth line today🤣
at 3.p.m + same on my phone
this is the same alarm they have in New Zealand, if anyone can provide context as to why they use the same alarm that would be great
It's a standard alarm, many, many other countries use it
my one was quite loud too and it gave me a heart attack
you probably had your ringer up to max i set mine quite low and it wasn't as loud
@@danielwortley2241 This. The test was conducted using one of the lower warning categories, which use the phone's volume settings. Only the highest warning category overrides all volume settings and goes full blast, since that one's meant for extreme emergencies that require immediate action
This thing gave me a heart attack earlier
A magical EAS ADVENTURE 🪄🎩
"I’m from the government and I’m here to help"
The nine most terrifying words in the English language
@@thsxi
Never a truer word......
But this is genuinly helpful.
@@thedemographicschannel611 Not in this country it's not.
@@thedemographicschannel611 .... Apparently alot of people in the UK purposely had their phone on silent....some even switched it off about ten minutes beforehand, and switched it back on ten minutes after the alert time.
I did neither, but I never got a sound alert, just a text message which flashed up a 'warning: test alert'. That the person on it had an American accent just compounds things.
Not only did the government not manage to make the alert that effective - they couldn't even use a British accent.
This government can't do ANYTHING right. They manage to botch things up continuously. After a while it gets very wearing.... knowing that your country just isn't functioning properly anymore.....and the government doesn't seem to care.
All I know is that this vid will go very viral rn
I was in coop at the time
I have that same
It went on when was on 125 bus
this sound is so scary!!!
This is your emergency broadcast system announcing the commencement of the annual Purge as sanctioned by the U.K. Government…… 😂
Rip to the people who thought this was real….
Cool
This scared the sh*t out of me cus I completely forgot about it
Same
The alert system didn’t go off on my phone
Does anyone know why it's 6 blasts of the siren?
Not 8. Not 10 etc.
Who decided 6 and why the 3rd blast is longer than the rest?
That probably was the result of a lot of meetings and discussions 😅
The sound is officially called SOS in the Cell Broadcast specification, at least the one used for EU-Alert. I don't know why, since it's actually not the full SOS pattern. You'll have to ask whoever came up with it when the system was first implemented in the US, the Netherlands and Japan, although Japan uses different sounds.
Meanwhile in Roding Valley
I never got it. Neither did my other phone. No one in my family got it even my brother who is on a different network didn't get it
Final sound we will hear before the nuke
Sounds similar that there's a fire alarm
I had mine turned off
I tried to film in westfireld but my phone turned the camera off when the alert came
Everyone in my house got it, like, i was the only one to not get it XD
Will Inspector sands please report to your phone 😂😂😂😂😂
We have a problem
Awesome!
When mine went off i was playing a horror game scared the fuck outta me
Gah! i wasted an oppotunity to go into town and record!!
The Purge vibes.
people have not turned it of yet ?
My iPhone SE got the alert but my father's Windows Phone didn't get anything!
It was only on iOS and Android, not Windows OS.
And it has to be a new phone.
@@jackjackum It actually doesn't have to be new, Android and iOS have supported these alerts since they were first implemented in several countries over 10 years ago. The problem is that many Android manufacturers as well as Apple handled the implementation of the alerts on a country-by-country basis, meaning that phones only supported emergency alerts in the countries that used them at the time of the phone's release. If a country introduced these alerts years later, the phones sold before that point in time didn't support alerts there, while all newer phones that came out after did.
There are only a few manufacturers that never did it this way, namely Honor, Huawei and Motorola. On their phones, it works pretty much everywhere, although they may have the American names for the different warning categories.
Just imagine if you were driving a train and that happend
It can be completely unexpected and could distract the drivers
@@ThemeparkDylan news reports being saying if you are driving then you should turn it off
@@harrisonsnazel7482 Sometimes they might not read the news and it just comes unexpected
@@ThemeparkDylanBut it’s been publicised for weeks when it’ll be
@@EuanBCFC Fair enough
I REMEMBER TTHISSS
Am I the only person that never got an alert haha? I was even aware of it before hand as I’ve a mate at work that was talking some bollocks about us getting nuke warnings😆never got one. Infact my younger brother was the only one in the whole family that got one. I’m on o2.
I remember this happening while I was heading home with my mom and my siblings, I was out of town so it really shocked me, as I didn't know it was happening. Luckily it was a test.
Mom? Who TF says that in the UK? Weirdo.
@@dp8739. lol I spend most of my time online, I’ve been americanified
This ruined my game of hide and seek 😤
Great location lol
I’ve turned mine off. I’m not living in fear
mine didn't go off lol
dystopian sci fi movies are now becoming reality
I got it in the queue at starbucks and the fella in front of me who just got his drink dropped it. Went all over my fucking shoes
How loud.
did you emergency alert system at 3:00 tonight morning
mine didnt work ive got mine turned on
the warning wasnt clear
Did Euston Underground Station has a test alert?
Not the station, but all UK phones should have got it.
@@tahirarafique4620 not everyone's
@@tahirarafique4620 that is, unless they turned off emergency alerts
Okay.
@@Farleigh1050 Yh
This is not for heavy winds and wild fires. This is prepping for war.
Of course.
It's been in the works since 2014. And apparently the same system was used to send everyone a COVID-19 text message.