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*"''If this had been an actual emergency, the Attention Signal you just heard would have been followed by official information, news, or instructions."
 
Some stations also listed the types of emergencies that the EBS would be activated for (i.e., [[tornado warning]], [[flash flood warning]], [[Hurricane force wind warning|hurricane warning]], or [[earthquake]]); the test conducted by [[WXYZ-TV]] in [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] made explicit reference to an attack on the United States as being a possible scenario for EBS activation.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsnsQTd7jrE</ref> In the late 1980s, several television stations in the [[Los Angeles]] area had specific test scripts that emphasized emergencyearthquake preparedness that urged viewers to study an emergency preparedness section in their telephone directory.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlhnDUra4p8</ref>
 
As the EBS was about to be replaced by its successor, the [[Emergency Alert System]], in the mid-1990s some stations used the following message: