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I'm visiting Taipei at the moment. Received these alerts on the phone a few minutes before the earthquake woke me up around midnight: https://i.imgur.com/v08yD

by vgf 9y ago

I'm visiting Taipei at the moment. Received these alerts on the phone a few minutes before the earthquake woke me up around midnight: https://i.imgur.com/v08yD9l.png https://i.imgur.com/v08yD9l.png

cpv 9y ago
Are they from a specific service, or it's a national/governmental system?
- xucheng 9y ago
  It’s from Taiwan’s earthquake early warning system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_warning_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_warning_system
  - vgf 9y ago
    An annoying detail with the iOS implementation is the lack of a "copy message text" function - I wanted to paste the text into Google Translate...
    - xucheng 9y ago
      The first one you received (the one is the bottom) said there is an earthquake in progress expecting certain areas to feel the shocks with level 4. The next one is the earthquake information after it happens.
    - vmarsy 9y ago
      As a workaround: Google Translate, at least on Android, has a camera button on the bottom left of the text box, there you can do live translation of what's on the camera (AR style above the original text), or simply upload an existing image from your device. You can upload that screenshot and see the translation.
    - emmelaich 9y ago
      I think if you took a screenshot you could then submit the image to Google translate.
decacorn 9y ago
how strong was it in Taipei?
- vgf 9y ago
  It felt like relatively high-amplitude lateral movements, but at the same time they weren't violent. No shaking - it was more like the building was moving around on a giant waterbed.
baybal2 9y ago
I wonder why it is called a "presidential alert" while it has nothing to do with one.
- bhhaskin 9y ago
  Its an alert setting. basically you can turn off the other alert types, but not the presidential one.
- Someone1234 9y ago
  It is a US phone on a non-US network. The cell broadcast messages may have been flagged the same as a "presidential alert" in the US but it would have a different meaning locally (e.g. "government alert", "emergency alert"). I believe the message type is just a "spare" numeric identifier that isn't defined consistently between the US, Europe, and elsewhere.
  - kuschku 9y ago
    Great. So like numerics in the IRC protocol, everyone does their own, and if you’re lucky some overlap.
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    More specifically, as to the US category it got lumped in, Presidential alerts are the highest priority in the Wireless Emergency Alert system, followed by alerts for extreme then several imminent danger to life, followed by AMBER Alerts. So, its not surprising that a top-priority message would show as a Presidential Alert in a US phone if the same basic technology and rough semantics are used.
- gcb0 9y ago
  probably because taiwaneses like to poke the PRC goverment and remind them all the time that they have a president?
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HarfTarf 9y ago
Here's a Google translation: https://i.imgur.com/TWZLwVY.png https://i.imgur.com/TWZLwVY.png

by vgf 9y ago

I'm visiting Taipei at the moment. Received these alerts on the phone a few minutes before the earthquake woke me up around midnight: https://i.imgur.com/v08yD9l.png https://i.imgur.com/v08yD9l.png

cpv 9y ago

Are they from a specific service, or it's a national/governmental system?

xucheng 9y ago
It’s from Taiwan’s earthquake early warning system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_warning_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_warning_system
- vgf 9y ago
  An annoying detail with the iOS implementation is the lack of a "copy message text" function - I wanted to paste the text into Google Translate...
  - xucheng 9y ago
    The first one you received (the one is the bottom) said there is an earthquake in progress expecting certain areas to feel the shocks with level 4. The next one is the earthquake information after it happens.
  - vmarsy 9y ago
    As a workaround: Google Translate, at least on Android, has a camera button on the bottom left of the text box, there you can do live translation of what's on the camera (AR style above the original text), or simply upload an existing image from your device. You can upload that screenshot and see the translation.
  - emmelaich 9y ago
    I think if you took a screenshot you could then submit the image to Google translate.

decacorn 9y ago

how strong was it in Taipei?

vgf 9y ago
It felt like relatively high-amplitude lateral movements, but at the same time they weren't violent. No shaking - it was more like the building was moving around on a giant waterbed.

baybal2 9y ago

I wonder why it is called a "presidential alert" while it has nothing to do with one.

bhhaskin 9y ago
Its an alert setting. basically you can turn off the other alert types, but not the presidential one.
Someone1234 9y ago
It is a US phone on a non-US network. The cell broadcast messages may have been flagged the same as a "presidential alert" in the US but it would have a different meaning locally (e.g. "government alert", "emergency alert"). I believe the message type is just a "spare" numeric identifier that isn't defined consistently between the US, Europe, and elsewhere.
- kuschku 9y ago
  Great. So like numerics in the IRC protocol, everyone does their own, and if you’re lucky some overlap.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  More specifically, as to the US category it got lumped in, Presidential alerts are the highest priority in the Wireless Emergency Alert system, followed by alerts for extreme then several imminent danger to life, followed by AMBER Alerts. So, its not surprising that a top-priority message would show as a Presidential Alert in a US phone if the same basic technology and rough semantics are used.
gcb0 9y ago
probably because taiwaneses like to poke the PRC goverment and remind them all the time that they have a president?

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HarfTarf 9y ago

Here's a Google translation: https://i.imgur.com/TWZLwVY.png https://i.imgur.com/TWZLwVY.png