{"id":389933,"date":"2010-03-04T10:40:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f611c8e970c"},"modified":"2010-03-04T10:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:47:06","slug":"o-c-alert-system-broke-down-during-tsunami-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/389933","title":{"rendered":"O.C. alert system broke down during tsunami advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"COLOR: #8b0412\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f448222970c-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tsunamimap2010-info-yellow\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f448222970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f448222970c-320pi\" style=\"MARGIN: 4px\" title=\"Tsunamimap2010-info-yellow\"><\/img><\/a> Officials in Orange County found problems with the new AlertOC system when they try tried\u00a0to notify residents of a possible tsunami surge last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As the system tried to dial out to an estimated 109,000 home and business land lines simultaneously, only about\u00a034,000, or 30%, of those calls initially succeeded because the network was overloaded, officials said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>\u201cIt does have its limitations. That\u2019s why it\u2019s just one of our components to alert residents,\u201d said Katie Eing, emergency services coordinator for the Newport Beach Fire Department<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Only a fraction of the lines were reached because the local phone switches couldn\u2019t handle the influx of outgoing calls, she said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/br>About 75,000 numbers didn\u2019t receive the first call. A second round of calls connected an additional 15,000. Still, about 60,000 people were not given instructions to avoid the coast. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypilot.com\/articles\/2010\/03\/04\/publicsafety\/dpt-alertoc030410.txt\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Joseph Serna, Daily Pilot<\/p>\n<p><em>Map: A representation of the\u00a0timing of Saturday&#8217;s tsunami advisory. Credit: Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Orange County found problems with the new AlertOC system when they try tried\u00a0to notify residents of a possible tsunami surge last weekend. As the system tried to dial out to an estimated 109,000 home and business land lines simultaneously, only about\u00a034,000, or 30%, of those calls initially succeeded because the network was overloaded, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}