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The National Weather Service accidentally sent out a false-alarm tsunami warning to residents of the East Coast this morning.
Users of weather services received a message suggesting that there was a tsunami warning in place from 8.30 a.m. ET. But in fact there was no report of earthquake activity.
The NWS has confirmed in a tweet that the alert was supposed to be a test, but that the word “test” was missing from the message.
***THERE IS NO TSUNAMI WARNING***A Tsunami Test was conducted earlier this morning, that did have TEST in the message. We are currently trying to find out how a message went out as a warning. We will update you when we find out more.
— NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) February 6, 2018
Meteorologist Hendricus Lulofs told the Herald Tribune that a glitch during a routine test meant “some people received what looked like an actual warning on their phones”.
The false alarm follows a terrifying missile alert for Hawaii last month. The alert warned residents to seek shelter and read, “THIS IS NOT A DRILL”.
