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...
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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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. 😊
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.
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.
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!
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 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 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.
@@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
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.
Saved our lives once. We were driving up north for a festival in Wisconsin. The truck we were in didn't have BT or anything so we used the radio. We were about 50 miles off and driving through some intense storms when an EAS comes over the radio, displaying a tornado warning for the city where we would've been in less than 5 minutes. We stopped on the next exit, got some lunch, and kept going. Many cars were flipped off the road. I don't know what would've happened if we kept going but it's nice that we avoided it.
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
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.
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.
15:00 As a Singaporean, both of the sounds are actually real. There are actually three sounds for our EAS system, "Important message", "Alarm" and "All clear". The sound you heard is the "Alarm" which is the sound to move to a shelter. The sound you played is the "Important message".
@@jekitabot12we do, but the real one is a lot more aggressive than the tests and has that high pitched tone before the classic code tone, scary as shit when you don't expect it
@@manfail7469where I live, which is in the USA, the only specification I feel safest providing is Pacific Northwestern USA, even on cable provider apps on our phones and tablets that allow us to watch live TV. We get the EAS test, it sounds like the US EAS alarm, but it looks like Canada‘s, but in blue.
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.
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.
the israel gulf war EAS is easily the most eerie for me. the silence at first followed by the terrifying wail is so indescribably unsettling and off putting, further followed by the static noises and then the more positive and calming music all ties together to feel like some twisted analog horror clip. if this was used in a mandela catalog video, it would fit perfectly. china’s EAS, on the other hand, is also incredibly panic-inducing, but, in my opinion, the bone-chilling wailing of israel’s EAS followed by the oddly calm music is unmatched.
It’s designed to scare you into action so that you can get you and your loved ones to the shelter immediately. Which, unfortunately, happens a lot because the Arabs have to Arab.
In Russia the EAS alarm is provided by (MES) Ministry of Emergency Situations which has local departments in every region. So the EAS alarms may differ between parts of the country. The one in the video is from Ulyanovsk Oblast and it's pretty chill. I was born in an industrial city with two factories in Vologda Oblast and the alarm I remember is quite different. I heard it once and it was a test warning about an ammonia leak on a fertiliser factory, it was way scarier then the one in the video and had way more of Chernobyl vibe to it. P. S.: In every school in Russia they have those "Safety 101 lessons" where they teach some basic things like how to stop a bleeding, rescue an unconscious person along with how to disassemble Kalashnikov rifle. In my city we also had to smell ammonia to memorise it and put on a full chemo suit.
in Krasnodar Krai the sirens are tested every few months or so and sound like your average air raid sirens. No messages on TV or anything like that as far as I'm aware though
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
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
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
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
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.
@@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" 🤷♂️
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
My long distance partner is Canadian and once I was on the phone to her when the alert sounded. For about three seconds I was genuinely afraid for her life until she turned it off and assured me it was just a missing person somewhere else in the province. Apparantly where she is they get them very often and she wasn't the least bit startled.
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.
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
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 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
@@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.
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)
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
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.
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
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 😂
Korean alert in video is offline air raid siren, and most emergency alert uses phone messege similar to UK Korean EAS for earthquake and civil defense warning was standarized recently, after 2018
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”
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
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.
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.
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.
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 💀
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
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...
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
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)
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.
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
I live in the USA and i have such distinct memories of the pure *DREAD* that filled my body every time i heard that sound on the radio in the car. I live really close to the ocean(east coast) and we get some crazy rain, wind, snow, etc super often so it feels like background noise now haha
German here, I have an old siren close to my house, it can be heard throughout most of my village and it is used for things like disaster warnings, it’s tested every second Saturday of an even month at 10:00 AM.
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.
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.
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
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.
The one for earthquakes in China is fucking terrifying, imagine just sitting and waiting for your whole home to start shaking with that in the background
As a german living in the state of Bavaria, I can confirm, that the warning you showed at 7:54 is a real german alert. Even though I have to add, that Germany has many ways of simultaneously informing thier people about a threat such as “Cell-Brodcast”, sirens in every town, a warning App and via radio and public displays which are normally used for advertising. Hope I could help and greetings from Bavaria:)
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.
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.
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.
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
first of all thank you for this video. im autistic about emergency alerts so seeing the fake eas alarms be spread around as real eas alarms made me soo sad 🙏 at the same time though seeing your layout is giving me so much whiplash. in this house we love sorayan
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.
@@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.
The Chile one is specifically for tsunami alerts. The Chile EAS works through the cellphone network. Emergency alerts pop up on phones and play a constant high pitched tone similar to the one found in the USA system.
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
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.
0:41 Another version exists for Alberta, which started a bit earlier than Ontario and other Canadian places, Alberta's Alert System started as far back as 1998 (Though no recordings from 1998-2001 really exist unless someone found them) As the Emergency Public Warning System, which lasted until 2011-2012 when it became Alberta Emergency Alert (The alert tone also changed around this time), the 2011-2012 system served as a prototype for Alert Ready in Canada.
i used to be terrified of the EAS Alerts living here in the US, but after being awake far too early throughout middle/high school and catching the tests at ungodly hours, i learned its not as scary as most ppl percieve them to be. And the scenario mocks are entertaining ☺
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 ^^"
@@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
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
Also, as a Canadian from Ontario, I too can confirm the realness of the Canadian EAS, which plays at full volume on every phone in the province whenever an Amber Alert goes out.
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. )
@@allyc.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
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
thank you for the video! this is all so interesting to me. its also intruigung that the EAS community *and* the piracy video game community love making mock ups to scare people haha. makes me wonder the psychological reason behind it. thank you again for this video!
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
The one at 4:21 I taken from a sample service. It is very reminiscent of old 90s dial up modems at the time. From my research It seems to be labeled as generic modem noise. It also seems to be picked down some and slowed
US, we have a National Test on Oct 4 (backup date is the 12th) It will last 60 seconds and broadcast on all media simultaneously across all US time zones.
@@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
@@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. th-cam.com/video/2JkrR1SCiBg/w-d-xo.html
We have exactly the same sound in NL. Have had 2 alarms already because of fires with heavy smoke nearby. One thing annoying is that it once sent an all clear sound at 1:30a. The all clear is exactly the same sound as the alarm. A lot of people were unhappy about this and complained.
I was in sweden/norway last week and i got a emergency alert for extreme rains, but it was just a regular EAS alarm on my phone (which is just like the UK)
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
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
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. :(
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!
@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
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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...
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.
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
Can't wait!
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.
Ok
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.
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...
You could say it’s bing chilling
@@turolretar**COMEDY**
@@sidiliang3472 Poor you.
@@sidiliang3472 that's trauma
I love how Japan's EAS just sounds like flowers, and the background basically says you have a slim chance of hope
ice cream music in the background
I'm watching you
Nice way to start your morning.
For us, it does sounds funny. But I recall that Japanese people are actually terrified when they hear this.
@@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.
"A HUGE EARTHQUAKE IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN!!!"
*calm music*
The fake ones are all legitimately so bad. The South Korea one is literally just dial-up.
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.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Your cat has subitisratioerectiphobia
Wtf@@babypiratesnapchat2
Huh
The Japanese EAS’s scariest part is when your tv is off it turns on
We’ll earthquakes happen a lot there so I guess better be safe than sorry
@@Buzz46Exactly.
🗿
At full volume
DERH
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.
yeah, like Spain, I remember seeing a video of a Spain EAS, their EAS doesn't make noise, there is no sound!
What about uk
the italian one is literally a banger
and as well with some cases in californa
for example: Poland, Spain...
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. 😊
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.
Same here, except I was 9 and was watching Netflix with my mom. The alert went off on my phone
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.
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!
I was 21 and asleep when it first went off on my phone. It's so loud :(
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 :)
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.
@@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
@@MonsieurMoustachio IF you get a notice on your phone. That system isnt even working properly
@@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.
@@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
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.
did the exact same thing with my iraqi mum
@@KliqHP Hello fello Iraqi! My mom is Iraqi too, but she's never lived there.
my iranian mother was a child during the Iran-Iraq war and still get anxiety hearing the siren to this day.
@@KliqHP My mom was 6 when the war happened, then 15 when it ended
A Saudi from the other side. My mom went through a Iran missile to Saudi
As someone in the us, thank Christ I don’t watch TV anymore, getting those alerts was heart-stoppingly terrifying.
They played it on the radio too 😢
I used to fall asleep with the TV on as a kid and once a month they’d do a test at like 3am. I was always petrified with fear
@@hyfroC They play the sound on phones too
Saved our lives once. We were driving up north for a festival in Wisconsin. The truck we were in didn't have BT or anything so we used the radio. We were about 50 miles off and driving through some intense storms when an EAS comes over the radio, displaying a tornado warning for the city where we would've been in less than 5 minutes. We stopped on the next exit, got some lunch, and kept going. Many cars were flipped off the road. I don't know what would've happened if we kept going but it's nice that we avoided it.
They can still play on mobile phones 🥲
The fake South Korea alarm is what would play when you connected to the internet back in the 90s
It's dial-up internet talking
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
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.
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.
Wouldn't be surprised if it also screamed "BITCH WAKE THE FUCK UP WAAAAAAAHHHOOOOOHHWWAAAAAAAGOOOOIOHHHH"
That’s actually very good.
Wait actually? I don’t think emergency alerts are capable of turning on the flashlight
@@hamzahassan7730 It doesn't care what you think it can do, it does it anyway.
@@battadia damn they are really serious about getting people alerted
15:00 As a Singaporean, both of the sounds are actually real. There are actually three sounds for our EAS system, "Important message", "Alarm" and "All clear". The sound you heard is the "Alarm" which is the sound to move to a shelter. The sound you played is the "Important message".
I'm a Singaporean and I have never heard the eas alarm
Im singaporean too!
The "Alarm" only plays on the tv, same with the "all clear" alarm. The total defense day only plays the "important message" alarm on the sirens.
As an American, hearing the US EAS alarm was SCARY. During Hurricane Idalia, it went off and i thought aliens have invaded the US or something.
I think USA chose something so scary to make sure that we are less likely to do something stupid.
You don't ever get a test one every week or so while watching cable TV?
@@jekitabot12we do, but the real one is a lot more aggressive than the tests and has that high pitched tone before the classic code tone, scary as shit when you don't expect it
@@manfail7469where I live, which is in the USA, the only specification I feel safest providing is Pacific Northwestern USA, even on cable provider apps on our phones and tablets that allow us to watch live TV. We get the EAS test, it sounds like the US EAS alarm, but it looks like Canada‘s, but in blue.
As a fellow American, I am traumatized by our EAS alarm to this day
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.
No, it isn't. I believe Singaporean English is just as good as normal English. Love to Singapore 🇸🇬 from the United States 🇺🇲
I will say your typed English is actually very good. Also the English on the TV sounded fantastic
@@shinobitreecko8442 So is yours. Don't say that your English isn't accurate when it seems perfectly fine to me.
@@armaniii0 to me, singaporean english isn't bad english
singaporean english is... basically english used in singapore
"in reality, both alarms are real."
i would want proof of that alarm being recorded
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.
Can confirm as it has scared me more then once when I was not expecting it
imagine you have 20 phones and hear that alarm IMAGINE
i don't expect it some times. i get scared for like 2 seconds but after i get over it
It sucks when you are trying to sleep around Alberta during early summer. Constantly for a week every year I swear.
I've only heard it a few times for real outside of amber alerts and tests and yea its pretty scary
the israel gulf war EAS is easily the most eerie for me. the silence at first followed by the terrifying wail is so indescribably unsettling and off putting, further followed by the static noises and then the more positive and calming music all ties together to feel like some twisted analog horror clip. if this was used in a mandela catalog video, it would fit perfectly. china’s EAS, on the other hand, is also incredibly panic-inducing, but, in my opinion, the bone-chilling wailing of israel’s EAS followed by the oddly calm music is unmatched.
It’s designed to scare you into action so that you can get you and your loved ones to the shelter immediately. Which, unfortunately, happens a lot because the Arabs have to Arab.
In Russia the EAS alarm is provided by (MES) Ministry of Emergency Situations which has local departments in every region. So the EAS alarms may differ between parts of the country. The one in the video is from Ulyanovsk Oblast and it's pretty chill. I was born in an industrial city with two factories in Vologda Oblast and the alarm I remember is quite different. I heard it once and it was a test warning about an ammonia leak on a fertiliser factory, it was way scarier then the one in the video and had way more of Chernobyl vibe to it.
P. S.: In every school in Russia they have those "Safety 101 lessons" where they teach some basic things like how to stop a bleeding, rescue an unconscious person along with how to disassemble Kalashnikov rifle. In my city we also had to smell ammonia to memorise it and put on a full chemo suit.
you mean Life Safety Fundamentals?
in Krasnodar Krai the sirens are tested every few months or so and sound like your average air raid sirens. No messages on TV or anything like that as far as I'm aware though
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
as a german, i agree, this was just a test
i got one
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
@@lezopi5914 An Iphone 13 pro is the only phone that consistently refused to ring during both recent tests around me lol
I actually got one and so did everyone in my area
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
You cant speak more facts i guess its because eas is like worst case scenario so yea
Hopefully flight rather than fight, since that's kind of the point if you need to evacuate.
@@CWINDOWSsystem32 lol
well, those sounds are designed to be distressing, so you get in the mood for running away from danger
that's the point
Info on Singapore: The tone you think was fake was actually the alert tone. The one you showed was an important message tone.
I love how throughout everything, Japan continue to be the most calm
J-alert: Im about to end this mans whole career
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
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.
The supposed "Mexico 1960" alarm is the fakest one I've ever heard.
@@Flamingbro69 don't you love it when theres a fake ass eas alert from 1666
It's totally serious. This guy graduated with a PhD in EAS 😂
@@Flamingbro69 i heard “korea 1950 eas” its from s*cide mouse
The most informative part of this video for me was learning that tornadoes can happen in Australia
Why wouldn't they be able to??
@@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" 🤷♂️
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?
Same bro
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.
As a Canadian/us citizen it confirm that both of those are indeed real
I love how saudi arabia doesnt just warn in arabic but also in english 22:49
Yes because many English tourists come to see famous landmarks so that’s smart for them
There is also a considerable expat population, so could be that.
@@penny4urthots125 yes I agree 🙌
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.
Yeah, if hearing Spongebob music meant that there is danger of _fucking dying_ people will learn to fear it soon enough.
yea fr
This man's a Chad for for actually saying this also no pun intended for Chad because this video is country related
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.
@@kitkatsinAlaskafalse alarm or not? That must’ve been mortifying either way!
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.
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
@@mauroghen9157 dang
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
My long distance partner is Canadian and once I was on the phone to her when the alert sounded. For about three seconds I was genuinely afraid for her life until she turned it off and assured me it was just a missing person somewhere else in the province. Apparantly where she is they get them very often and she wasn't the least bit startled.
that’s nightmare fuel wtff
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
It's crazy that we're not sure if the EAS systems are real or not. Governments need to release this stuff.
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.
On god bro wtf if I was awake and heard them counting down to catastrophe I would have a heart attack
Imagine walking down the street and just hearing somebody counting down
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.
Reminds me of the hunger games tbh, still freaky though
chinese national anthem: the world is great sunshine is every where
chinese EAS alarm: welcome to hell!
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
Not a disembodied voice from the sky, it’s city wide speakers. every city has them in case of natural disasters
quak
@@beewashere3496 Bruh
@@TezalTube what.
Yeah
The real Malaysian alarm is I can confirm is the loudest siren ever made. Then the man starts saying the tsunami wave.
I am from Germany and the screen said:
An emergency occurs! Please stay calm! further instructions follow!
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
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
@@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
@@timmytacoburrito So do I.
@@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.
@@timmytacoburrito i got it because a wildfire warning in my area, not fun
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)
Te creo weon, la de ahora asusta un poco pero antes esta wea era kgarse de miedo.
@@AstaGaming2000 había una diferente?
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
@@moonzzzzzz es que esa la cambiaron y ahora es una alarma cualquiera de Tsunami
@@AstaGaming2000 por qué la cambiaron??
9:07 WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWO-
Wow
Good to learn all the different alerts for all the countries in case of emergency while traveling
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.
Sounds like an alarm clock to me
This one is only used for phone tho
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.
It is fake. Mga boang proud pinoy
Its used on phones
Thanks for this. I’ve seen a lot of EAS alert videos and some of them are really creepy, or downright too good to be true. Appreciate it. ❤
18:49 unexpected! they're made of the tsunami warning.
Kinda sounds like a censor beep when a person says an obscenity
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
holy shit dude that sounds horrifying
america had this once ! i don’t remember why but i was in my 6th hour in middle school
@@colterbaei think that was when they accidentally sent out the alert if it was in like 2017 or 2018.
@@epicendergamer8535 no it was intentional. it also wasn’t 2018
I go into fight or flight mode when I get a phone call I couldn’t imagine if my phone started making eldritch noises
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 😂
Even if you’re wearing headphones?
@@plumjet0930 That's a good question! I think it plays on both the headphones and the phone's speaker, but I'm not sure 🤔
as a fellow canadian, you are 100% correct 🤣
It plays even if an amber alert is in a DIFFERENT PROVINCE. It’s ridiculous
@@figeonno it doesnt
Korean alert in video is offline air raid siren, and most emergency alert uses phone messege similar to UK
Korean EAS for earthquake and civil defense warning was standarized recently, after 2018
this is a good education, so as tourists or visitors can know the warning signs and noises to alerts
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”
It does make sense, if you realise that behind our EAS there's also sirens. And those thingies are gonna blow your ears off.
The sounds that the mobile phones ands sirenes made were still terrifying thogh :D
I wonder if same goes to the philippine one, you can hear the ppl in the bg counting down
@@EifelBlaulichtTVlitterally USA EAS: * LOUD BEEEEEEP * * LOUD BEEEEEEP * * LOUD BEEEEEEP*
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
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.
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.
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.
@@ExtremeWreck the greece one is either from mw2 (nuke sound) or defcon i cant remember
@@vanguardian3439 Probably Defcon 5 on the Sega Saturn or PS1.
@@ExtremeWreck nah im thinking defcon by introversion
As an Italian i can insure that our alert sound is the one in the video
If anyone is curious, this alert is from February 27, 1991
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 💀
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
Bulgaria's alert systems gives me the creeps it made me shiver down my spine
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
I swear, and then the very muffled voice would also scare the piss out of ne
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
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...
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
@@projecty.b.t.f.c DUDEEE I hate the school drill siren! It gives me so much anxiety for no real reason 😭
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)
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.
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
I live in the USA and i have such distinct memories of the pure *DREAD* that filled my body every time i heard that sound on the radio in the car. I live really close to the ocean(east coast) and we get some crazy rain, wind, snow, etc super often so it feels like background noise now haha
German here, I have an old siren close to my house, it can be heard throughout most of my village and it is used for things like disaster warnings, it’s tested every second Saturday of an even month at 10:00 AM.
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.
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.
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
@@notallenthecatloverwhat 💀
@@notallenthecatloveroh my I feel bad for your grandma tho.
@@notallenthecatloverimagine your TV konws you drink alot
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.
i agree as a german, it was just a test
@@sketchy275 also as a German you couldn't hear anything
The one for earthquakes in China is fucking terrifying, imagine just sitting and waiting for your whole home to start shaking with that in the background
As a german living in the state of Bavaria, I can confirm, that the warning you showed at 7:54 is a real german alert.
Even though I have to add, that Germany has many ways of simultaneously informing thier people about a threat such as “Cell-Brodcast”, sirens in every town, a warning App and via radio and public displays which are normally used for advertising.
Hope I could help and greetings from Bavaria:)
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.
meanwhile they send me into panic attacks
@@joonlovescrabs fr
They should grab your attention, not scare the shit out of you
meanwhile the alternate of j-alert:
They should alert you, not scare you to death
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.
Im not from the US and I've never been in an situation like that but MY GOD DOES THAT SOUND TERRIFYING-
@@thefunkiestswag it is but it's a lot less scary for me because my tv provider test the eas every week
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.
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
POV: it’s just a test
When I'm on Japan and I saw the example alert is freaking me out but the first one Is just calming
first of all thank you for this video. im autistic about emergency alerts so seeing the fake eas alarms be spread around as real eas alarms made me soo sad 🙏 at the same time though seeing your layout is giving me so much whiplash. in this house we love sorayan
it still baffles me that North Korea actually launched missiles at and over Japan and they actually had to use the missile alert system
Japan is in close proximity to North Korea, so this isn't an isolated incident for them, and certainly not the last
well... rocket launch like going to the tropics better than the poles, so DPRK always launches it over japan...
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.
If I may ask, what happened in Mexico that caused so much trauma
Mexico eas is ridiculous for me it's only BOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWO
And the same sound every time..
@@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.
@@hugorobledo9433 There was also a major earthquake on March 28, 1787 that was around 8.5 on magnitude
@@hugorobledo9433 oh damn, that sounds terrifying
The contrast between the two Japanese ones is just 💀
The Chile one is specifically for tsunami alerts.
The Chile EAS works through the cellphone network. Emergency alerts pop up on phones and play a constant high pitched tone similar to the one found in the USA system.
The Japanese alarm gives me goosebumps, such an innocent sounding alarm for a severe weather warning.
this video shows an earthquake alert, the yellow prefectures are the ones effected and the X represents the suspected epicentre
@@SuperCatman Such a gentle sound for an earthquake
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
And the OTHER Japanese alarm? That one is 10x worse!
Same, it gives me chills during the night
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.
I was looking for a cmt like this to see if it was real lol-
so is it?
@@dudewithacat52 Yes it is, I saw more sources and I confirmed it.
I've asked my dad and this is true, he was a child and could recall, that to this sound they made an announcement.
I'm sorry that you had to witness this time.
0:41 Another version exists for Alberta, which started a bit earlier than Ontario and other Canadian places, Alberta's Alert System started as far back as 1998 (Though no recordings from 1998-2001 really exist unless someone found them) As the Emergency Public Warning System, which lasted until 2011-2012 when it became Alberta Emergency Alert (The alert tone also changed around this time), the 2011-2012 system served as a prototype for Alert Ready in Canada.
i used to be terrified of the EAS Alerts living here in the US, but after being awake far too early throughout middle/high school and catching the tests at ungodly hours, i learned its not as scary as most ppl percieve them to be. And the scenario mocks are entertaining ☺
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 ^^"
Your country is a soon nuclear accident, it no wonder you have testing so frequency.
Nous il ne nous font pas évacuer
On est pas évacué nous
@@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
@@emmaistired j'étais en public
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.
It's the dumbest fake alarm and the fact that anyone could believe it's real astounds me.
I’m German as well and I wouldn’t have heard that in my early days. Also, I agree with you.
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.
@@leDespicable so real und schade wir leben ohne eine EAS-System seit 90er
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
Japanese man here, I can confirm, the alert causes just as much panic as the rest of alerts.
"HONEY! THERE ARE NUKES COMING WE HAVE TO EVACUATE!"
"one sec babe lemme record this emergency alert"
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.
Aw man :( I was jamming
Interesting fact
@@aocglazer Most stations will probably just read it out to you tbh
@@ech9817 yah me to :/
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...
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.
@AnimationAndGamingYT Remastered (Anti Furry) how bad Israel is
Nah...
The Italy EAS alarm, I have no words...💀 3:07
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.
@@davidlineweaver2263 Wow, I haven't expected that...🤭
As a person who follows Japan earthquakes a lot, the alerts started to stress me out they scare me so much
20:53 I like a bit of bird in my eli
theres milk in el-wappie
Also, as a Canadian from Ontario, I too can confirm the realness of the Canadian EAS, which plays at full volume on every phone in the province whenever an Amber Alert goes out.
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. )
It’s funny how the unnerving Japanese missile alert tone contrasts greatly with the cute-sounding Japanese earthquake alert tone😅
@@allyc.6978 yeah
@@allyc.6978 earthquake but like reversed would sound a little spooky
@@allyc.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
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 💦
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
Can't fix the system if it ain't broke
fellow schafrillas fan :)
thank you for the video! this is all so interesting to me. its also intruigung that the EAS community *and* the piracy video game community love making mock ups to scare people haha. makes me wonder the psychological reason behind it. thank you again for this video!
THE VIDEO OF IRANS EAS SENDS A WARM TINGLING FEELING DOWN MY ENTIRE NERVE SYSTEM
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
thanks for this
You deserve 👏.
Can always count on my fellow keyboard warriors
our hero
Damn it where’s Pakistan!?
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
That was actually the earthquake early warning tone. The tsunami warning tone is much more urgent-sounding.
Japan has a bad history with man-made disasters
its like the japanese eas reminding you very calmly that you have a really slim chance of survival
The one at 4:21 I taken from a sample service. It is very reminiscent of old 90s dial up modems at the time. From my research It seems to be labeled as generic modem noise. It also seems to be picked down some and slowed
US, we have a National Test on Oct 4 (backup date is the 12th) It will last 60 seconds and broadcast on all media simultaneously across all US time zones.
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
Oh, I wasn't aware, thank you! Hopefully I can find a real EAS of it sometime
@@faeriemachine You're welcome
@@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
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And the Punchline: The Test was a horrible failure.
@@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.
th-cam.com/video/2JkrR1SCiBg/w-d-xo.html
The UK one is real. The system was being rolled out when this video was published, and is now fully operational - it plays through your phone.
We have exactly the same sound in NL.
Have had 2 alarms already because of fires with heavy smoke nearby.
One thing annoying is that it once sent an all clear sound at 1:30a. The all clear is exactly the same sound as the alarm. A lot of people were unhappy about this and complained.
I think we had one ring out a few weeks ago? It was a test and we heard it in sheffield area.
Yeah we recently rolled this out. I recall making several mental notes about it as we had forewarning, but still woke up shitting myself.
Yep, i screamed like a girl and ran into the couch lol
I thought a TH-cam video started when it happened lol
0:12 this combined with different sirens depending on where in the US always gets me 😂😅
I was in sweden/norway last week and i got a emergency alert for extreme rains, but it was just a regular EAS alarm on my phone (which is just like the UK)
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
They still happen, though I've only heard them on the radio
The USA one gives me trauma
same here
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
in Nevada, they do it at 1:45 EVERY SINGLE NIGHT!
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
How many languages are that???
if i heard that alarm at night i would just give up and let whatever danger there is kill me
@@PaGDu333 6 languages
Me: I'm gona Die, I'm done, God I'm going for you 😞
I love your pfp 😂😂😂
As a Bulgarian, I can't help but feel dread when hearing that alarm since it has basically traumatized me from early childhood with it's tests
i love how the usa alert is literally IN MY AREA
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
Same in germany :D just slightly different sounds I guess
Being Swedish, i can say that Hesa Fredrik can also be heard at a specific time every first monday on a new month
@@stimkytheskunk3306 only every 3rd month, at 15:00
@@stimkytheskunk3306Do you happen to know why that is? Are they testing it to make sure it works?
@@aki6605 Thats ecxacly why they do it - to test it so it works
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. :(
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!
@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
Não foi em 2019?
@@ocanalsurpreendente não/no.
@@brianadickerson3813 wikipedia is not a trustable source
As a Mexican, I can confirm the alarm system sounds like that
Im from Spain, about a year ago I got a pop up emergency test message on my phone, the tone was pretty similar to the one shown in the video