{"id":2308,"date":"2017-09-27T07:36:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T17:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:42:51","slug":"annual-national-eas-test-september-27-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/annual-national-eas-test-september-27-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS RELEASE: Annual National EAS Test &#8211; September 27, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p2 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\">September 25, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>HONOLULU<\/b><\/span> <span class=\"s1\"><b>&#8211;<\/b><\/span> <span class=\"s1\">The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in collaboration with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be conducting the 2017 Annual National Emergency Alert System (EAS) Test on September 27, 2017, at 8:20 AM HST.&nbsp; The test message will clearly state that the alert is only a test of the EAS system.&nbsp; All EAS Participants are required to participate in this nationwide test.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\">The purpose of this test is to assess the reliability and effectiveness of the Emergency Alert System.&nbsp; It will use the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), which allows broadcast stations to receive test audio from the internet-based Common Alerting Protocol-Based (CAP-Based) and then measures how effective these alerts are sent and received.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\">If conditions on the day of the test require the rescheduling of the test, a secondary test date is scheduled for October 4, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center p9 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Media Contact:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\">Arlina Agbayani<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\">Public Relations Officer<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\">808.620.5423&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p10 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s5\">HawaiiEma@hawaii.gov<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p11 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p13 wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 25, 2017 HONOLULU &#8211; The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in collaboration with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be conducting the 2017 Annual National Emergency Alert System (EAS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"2251,2236,2101,2205,4800,1960","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[352,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-2021","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17004,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/17004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}