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The '''Common Alerting Protocol''' (CAP) is an [[XML]]-based data format for exchanging emergency [[AMBER Alert|alerts]] and [[Emergency population warning|public warnings]] among different alerting technologies. CAP allows a consistent warning message to be disseminated simultaneously over many different warning systems to many different applications, in order to increase warning effectiveness and simplify the warning activation task for responsible officials.
Individuals can receive standardized alerts from various sources and configure their applications to process and respond to the alerts as desired. Alerts from the US Geological Survey, the Department of Homeland Security, and NOAA can all be received in the same format, can be received by the same application, and that application can, for example, sound different alarms based on the information received.
By normalizing alert data across threats, jurisdictions and warning systems, CAP also can be used in the detection of trends and patterns in local warning activity, such as might indicate an undetected hazard or hostile act. From a procedural perspective, CAP reinforces a research-based template for effective warning message content and structure.
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