Around 90 percent of the country received an alert. Around 10 per cent of people did not get an alert – and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) communications manager Anthony Frith says there are a couple of reasons why that may have happened. It could be an older phone, or the phone could need an update." When it was first used, just one third of New Zealand received the alert. The alerts were used a lot during the Westport floods, and the 2019 Pidgeon Valley fires.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 23, 2022 05:56 UTC