The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be testing its Wireless Emergency Alerts, or WEA, and Emergency Alert System, or EAS, nationwide today at 2:20 p.m., according to an Oct. 3 press release.

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Turn off the alerts you don't want to receive by tapping each slider next to it from green to grey: AMBER Alerts, emergency alerts, public safety alerts and test alerts. You can also turn alert ...

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The Emergency Alert System (EAS) will also be used to send test messages to TV and radio stations. However, the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) will not be utilized during this exercise.