3-486: The Standard Emergency Warning Signal (SEWS) is a warning siren used in Australia to alert the public of danger. The siren is played over radio, television or public address systems in public places to warn of bushfire , flood , cyclone , tsunami , earthquake or terrorist attack . The SEWS tone has also been adopted for use in the new Emergency Alert Australia system which sends standard text messages from
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9-565: Was developed by the Bureau of Meteorology in the 1970s for tropical cyclone warnings. It was adopted as a national emergency warning signal on 21 May 1995. Historic/Defunct: General: This Australian government-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Siren (noisemaker) Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
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