False Tsunami Warning Sent To the East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean (nbcnews.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday February 6, 2018 @08:05AM from the oh,-no-not-that-one dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Some residents along the East Coast received a false tsunami warning on Tuesday morning after a private company sent out an alert following a monthly test by the National Weather Service. A tweet from the National Weather Service (NWS) in Charleston, South Carolina, said the alert was sent around 8:30 a.m. ET. "We have been notified that some users received this test message as an actual Tsunami Warning," the NWS tweeted, adding that a tsunami warning was "not in effect." In a statement to NBC News, the NWS said that a routine test was sent out and that the agency is investigating why it was communicated as an actual tsunami.

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False Tsunami Warning Sent To the East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean (nbcnews.com)

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