Teach you how to identify earthquake rumors and improve earthquake resistance

One: Q: What is the shock?

A: Sometimes there are some “messions” about earthquakes that are circulating in society or on the Internet. They are not opinions of earthquake predictions issued by the government. They are rumored by earthquakes. Earthquakes can easily cause social disorders and affect people’s normal lives.

Q: Recently there have been more rumors of earthquakes on the Internet. How do you identify earthquake rumours?

A: 1: It is intended to express official colors to the rumors. The rumors have generally been published by the “known experts of XX” and “the earthquake department of a certain country”, causing misunderstandings among the public.
In addition, there are some rumors that overshadow the consequences of the earthquake. Sometimes such sensational news is also not credible, especially after the occurrence of a strong earthquake, where “a place is about to subside,” “some place is to be flooded,” and so on.

2: Transnational earthquake prediction. This is inconsistent with international conventions and does not comply with China's regulations on issuing earthquake predictions. China's Law on Earthquake Preparedness and Mitigation clearly stipulates that earthquake prediction shall adopt a unified release system. Earthquake prediction opinions in the administrative regions of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall be issued by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government in accordance with the procedures prescribed by the State Council.

3: Exceed the actual level of the current earthquake forecast. The actual level of earthquake prediction in China is to predict some types of earthquakes to a certain extent, and there is a certain degree of confidence in the mid- and long-term forecasts of larger time scales, but the success rate of short-term impending predictions is still very low. At the international level, earthquake prediction is still at an exploratory stage, and the laws governing the development of earthquakes have not yet been fully grasped. The earthquake rumored alleged that the three elements of the earthquake are very accurate, so-called earthquake prediction opinions, such as the time, place and magnitude of the earthquake in the rumors are very specific, and even the time of the seismogenesis is accurate to “morning” and “evening”.

II: How to hear earthquake rumors?

1: Do not spread. We must believe that as long as the government knows that a destructive earthquake will happen, it will never be concealed from the people. Therefore, if you hear the rumor from the earthquake, do not continue broadcasting. For those who spread the earthquake, the state will pursue its legal responsibility according to law.

2: Do not believe. Although earthquake prediction has not yet passed, there are earthquake departments conducting monitoring research and government departments are organizing and deploying earthquake prevention and disaster reduction work, so do not believe that there is no scientific basis for earthquake rumor.

3: If animals, plants, or groundwater are found to be abnormal, they must report to the earthquake authorities in a timely manner, and do not distribute them at random. The earthquake department will take measures to conduct timely investigation and verification. There are many reasons for these anomalies.

4: report in a timely manner. When you hear the rumors of an earthquake, you must report to the local government and the earthquake authorities in a timely manner and assist the earthquake authorities in quelling rumours.

III: How to Improve the Anti-seismic Capacity of Rural Houses

Earthquake experts said: China's earthquake disaster is very serious, and most of the destructive earthquakes occur in rural areas. Nearly 60% of the deaths caused by the earthquake are rural people. For a long time, due to the constraints of social and economic development, building houses in rural areas have not been incorporated into the supervision of earthquake fortification and the awareness of earthquake prevention and disaster reduction has become weak. The vast rural areas are basically in an undefended state. A level 5 or more earthquake often causes casualties and housing. collapse.

The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the prevention and reduction of earthquake disasters in rural areas. In view of the weak status of our country's rural residential buildings in preventing earthquakes, the “Notice on Strengthening Earthquake Preparedness and Mitigation Work” issued by the State Council in 2004 put forward specific requirements for the promotion of seismic safety engineering for rural residential houses. In order to sum up and exchange local experiences in a timely manner, the State Council held a national earthquake prevention and security work conference for rural houses in Xinjiang in 2006. After the meeting, the State Council’s General Office forwarded the “Opinions on Implementing Seismic Safety Engineering for Rural Houses” issued by the Seismological Bureau and the Ministry of Construction, and fully deployed rural houses. The implementation of the earthquake safety project; the National Plan for Earthquake Preparedness and Disaster Reduction issued by the State Council in 2006 regards the “Establishment of a Rural Residential Seismic Safety Demonstration Area” as the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” phase of the earthquake prevention and mitigation plan, and clarifies the main tasks of the rural residential earthquake safety project.

Since the National Rural House Earthquake Earthquake Security Work Conference, various localities have taken effective measures to vigorously promote the implementation of the earthquake-resistant rural housing project. Sixteen provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) established leadership and offices, 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) convened special meetings or issued documents to implement the implementation of the local rural housing project; some regions introduced preferential policies to support the promotion of publicity. Mobilize and guide the peasants to build earthquake-resistant farmhouses; in some areas, the housing project will be included in the overall planning of new rural construction and promoted as a whole. At present, Xinjiang, Yunnan, and Gansu have entered a phase of full implementation. In Xinjiang, a total of 1.79 million households have been built as earthquake-tolerant farmers. Yunnan has rehabilitated and rehabilitated nearly 590,000 earthquake-resistant farms, and Gansu has built up 700,000 people after the earthquake, reconstruction, and resettlement. The remaining households have earthquake-resistant farms. In other areas, 1.48 million households have also been built through demonstration pilots and post-disaster reconstruction. In the past few years, there have been several destructive earthquakes in the Xinjiang region, and none of the earthquake-resistant farms have collapsed. In the Wenchuan earthquake, even in areas with an actual intensity of VIII, the earthquake-resistant housing has stood the test; from late last year to early this year, the Altay region suffered three consecutive times. Rare heavy snowfalls, massive house collapses, and intact earthquake-resistant farms all show the remarkable results of earthquake safety engineering in rural residential areas. These disaster reduction results have improved the ability of rural areas to resist earthquakes. The next step will be to further intensify the work, combined with the new rural construction and other projects, and constantly improve the seismic capacity of the majority of rural dwellings.