China sets up world's largest earthquake early warning network

BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) — The China Earthquake Administration announced Friday that it has completed its national earthquake early warning project, creating the world's largest earthquake early warning network, Xinhua News Agency reported.

The network includes 15,899 monitoring stations across the country, providing public early warning services and rapid reporting of earthquake intensity, Yin Zhaomin, deputy head of the administration, said at a press conference.

Yin added that early warnings issued by the project can reach the public through television, Internet Protocol Television, and mobile phone apps such as WeChat and Alipay, as well as village loudspeakers.

Earthquake early warning systems rely on a dense network of seismic stations to issue alerts before destructive seismic waves arrive. These systems take advantage of the fact that seismic waves travel much more slowly than electromagnetic waves.

The public can take precautionary measures to reduce losses, after receiving warnings seconds to tens of seconds before the arrival of seismic waves.

Yin said that through this project, China has made major breakthroughs in the core technologies of earthquake early warning and rapid reporting of earthquake intensity, and the overall performance of the system is on par with international advanced standards.

For the five critical areas including North China and coastal areas in Southeast China, the project can issue early warning signals within seconds of an earthquake. It can also report the intensity of any earthquake occurring in any part of China within minutes.

The project can detect earthquakes with a magnitude of 2.5 or greater in most parts of the country. In the eastern regions, it can detect any earthquake with a magnitude of 2.0 or greater. In densely populated areas such as the capital and the Yangtze River Delta, the project will be able to detect any earthquake with a magnitude of 1.0 or greater.

Yin added that the project is integrated with industries such as railways, pipelines, power grids, nuclear power and natural gas.

China is a country of frequent earthquakes. In 2023, the country reported 18 earthquakes of magnitude 5 or above. Of these, 11 occurred on the Chinese mainland, including two with magnitudes greater than 6. – Bernama, Xinhua

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