NYC officials took over 20 minutes to alert New Yorkers about earthquake
New York City emergency management officials took 24 minutes to send out the first public alert about an earthquake that rumbled buildings throughout the city and left many New Yorkers confused about what exactly had happened.
But Mark Levine, the Manhattan borough president, expressed concern about the time it took for official alerts about the earthquake to be issued. In an, Levine wrote that he and others did not receive the emergency cellphone text for over an hour after the earthquake happened. Jackie Bray, the commissioner for the state’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, said in an interview on WNYC on Friday afternoon that the criticism of the city was unfair.
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