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The '''Common Alerting Protocol''' ('''CAP''') is an [[XML]]-based data format for exchanging [[emergency population warning|public warnings]] and emergencies between alerting technologies. CAP allows a warning message to be consistently disseminated simultaneously over many warning systems to many applications, such as [[Google Public Alerts]] and [[Cell Broadcast]]. CAP increases warning effectiveness and simplifies the task of activating a warning for responsible officials.
Standardized alerts can be received from many sources and configure their applications to process and respond to the alerts as desired. Alerts from the [[Department of Homeland Security]], the [[Department of the Interior]]'s [[United States Geological Survey]], and the [[United States Department of Commerce]]'s [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] (NOAA), and state and local government agencies can all be received in the same format by the same application. That application can, for example, sound different alarms, based on the information received.
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