Online timer for 26 seconds
While staying beside the device during a tsunami-signal practice, use 26 seconds to listen for the sound’s pattern, pauses, and reach inside the room. Keep your attention on the signal rather than treating the countdown as an evacuation cue. In a New Zealand coastal setting, the exercise can help you distinguish a test sound from ordinary traffic, machinery, or a nearby alarm.
As you remain near the practice, keep the countdown tab visible until it ends. Closing the tab or browser may stop the page, so the finish alert might never sound even though the drill signal continues. If you need to check information elsewhere, leave this page open and switch between tabs without closing it. A locked phone or browser power-saving behaviour can also affect whether the alert is heard.
Listening beside the signal makes a digital countdown easier to check against the actual test. A mechanical dial timer may be slightly awkward for such a short interval because its markings can be broad and its ring adds another sound to the exercise. Note where the signal begins and ends, then let the countdown provide a separate reference rather than assuming both sounds will finish together.
Common questions
Why might the tsunami practice signal finish before this interval ends?
A local test may use a shorter burst or a pattern with pauses, so the audible section can end earlier. Let the countdown finish while noting when the signal stopped.
What if the tsunami practice signal is still sounding when this interval ends?
Remain attentive to the drill and follow any instructions supplied by the local organiser or emergency authority. The countdown measures only the selected interval; it does not define how long a New Zealand warning test must last.
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