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Tsunami emergency texts: Who makes the call on alerting and why are some phones shrieking at their owners in US accents?
5 Mar, 2021 03:39 PM
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It comes down to one person pushing a button - before a lot of people get a big surprise.
The decision to issue mobile alerts after events such as Friday s earthquakes is reserved for trained operators in a few agencies. And if people don t get one when they think they should have - they re not shy at letting people know.
A Civil Defence alert message on Friday morning came to Gisborne residents three hours after a severe 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook them awake.
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