Google Public Alerts
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Type of site | Weather and safety alerting site |
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| Owner | Google.org |
| URL | google |
| Launched | 30 October 2012[1] |
Google Public Alerts is an online notification service that sends safety alerts (weather watches, warnings, advisories, safety instructions, etc.) to the United States, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Japan, Taiwan, and Indonesia launched on October 30, 2012. It is part of the Google Crisis Response team and publishes content from its partners of each country.[2] If you activate Google Now on your Android device, you can see suitable/official weather and public safety on Google Search and Google Maps.[2]
Partners[3]
- National Weather Service
- United States Geological Survey
- West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
- AMBER alerts from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
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- Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres (National Unit for Disaster Risk Management)
- Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales (Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies)
- Central Weather Bureau
- Water Resource Agency
- Soil and Water Conversation Bureau
- Directorate General of Highways
- National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction
- Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika (Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics)
- Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management)