Today, Google announced "Google Public Alerts," a service intended to provide users with important information regarding things such as inclement weather, public safety, and earthquakes. The service is integrated into Google Maps and gathers important, emergency information based on your current location.
Whether you see an alert depends on which alerts are active at a given location, their severity, and your search query. If you’re interested in seeing all of the active alerts in one place, visit our homepage at www.google.org/publicalerts. This page also provides a link to more information on our new platform and gives instructions to interested organizations who want to make their emergency data available through this tool.
This feature is available worldwide and was built by the Google.org project team.
