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Brother Buzz

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2. I received my FIRST California earthquake alert, ironically, on the same day as the Venezuela earthquake

Reply to Lovie777 (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 27, 2026, 12:29 PM

7 hrs ago

I was like, what, what, and sat inside trying to process what I received. Zero information on that who, what, where thingy, and thought they might have been hacked. The message was time stamped 8:10, and it took ten minutes searching before the California earthquake hit the internet.

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How Phones Alerted Millions Before Quakes Shook Venezuela [View all] mahatmakanejeeves 13 hrs ago OP

Yes, I know California have that alert system on cell phones.............. Lovie777 12 hrs ago #1

I received my FIRST California earthquake alert, ironically, on the same day as the Venezuela earthquake Brother Buzz 7 hrs ago #2

The system was developed in Japan starting about twenty years ago. hunter 7 hrs ago #3