Complex sentence: Alerts from the United States 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.
Split into simpler sentences: Alerts from the United States Geological Survey, the Department of Homeland Security, and NOAA 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.