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Pickering area -- 40 km away from Toronto. Nonetheless, training exercise that erroneously issued a provide-wide alert.
by rishirishi 7y ago
Pickering area -- 40 km away from Toronto. Nonetheless, training exercise that erroneously issued a provide-wide alert.
- stevehiehn 7y agoPickering is considered part of the GTA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Toronto_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Toronto_Area
- retrac 7y agoThe Pickering plant is only about 3 km from the city of Toronto's border. While it was selected in the 60s as a relatively remote site, it's now a heavily urbanized area considered part of Greater Toronto.
- SECProto 7y agoIt's strange that this article says "Toronto area" - it was sent to the entire province of Ontario.
- jpdaigle 7y agoI'm in Gatineau, Québec and we got it too, so it even got broadcast to neighbouring provinces.
- interestica 7y agoI was wondering about this today. How granular are the 'zones' used for these alerts? Is it just by political boundary? For something like Pickering, it would be useful to have a more geographical zone -- including parts of the US. Could the alert be sent out and limited to cell towers within a selected zone? Is the current system using tower location?
- Scoundreller 7y agoThey have the ability to geotarget them, but fail at it regularly. From what I understood from spectrum auctions, Gatineau Quebec is a part of the Ottawa area, so they're probably a part of Ontario side when it comes to cell system back-end.
- stevehiehn 7y agoI posted the news link to HN with this title. I now agree it's not accurate but didn't realize the scale of the alert at the time.
- interestica 7y agoWhat kind of alert boundaries are there? Presumably radiation doesn't follow political boundaries.
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