China News Service, Chengdu, June 12 (Yang Yudian) At 18:00 on June 12, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurred in Yingjiang County, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, Chengdu Center for Earthquake Early Warning Technology Research of China Earthquake Administration, Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Earthquake Early Warning , Chengdu High-tech Disaster Reduction Research Institute announced that China Earthquake Early Warning Network successfully warned the earthquake and issued an early warning in advance.
The mobile phones and televisions with earthquake warning function in the vicinity of the epicenter received warnings.
(Photo courtesy of Chengdu High-tech Disaster Reduction Research Institute)
It is reported that the China Earthquake Warning Network Continental Earthquake Warning Center gave Dehong pre-warning 24 seconds in advance and Kunming city 120 seconds in advance.
Mobile phones, televisions, and "big speakers" with earthquake early warning functions in the vicinity of the epicenter issued early warnings.
The China Earthquake Warning Network Mainland Earthquake Warning Center also released earthquake warning information through nearly 50 government and media microblogs for the first time.
At the same time, it provides simultaneous early warning information for the China Earthquake Network Center, the National Early Warning Information Release Center, the National Disaster Reduction Center, and the Sichuan Provincial Emergency Management Department.
The mobile phones and televisions with earthquake warning function in the vicinity of the epicenter received warnings.
(Photo courtesy of Chengdu High-tech Institute of Disaster Reduction)
According to the earthquake intensity quick report and population heat map generated by the Continental Earthquake Warning Center of China Earthquake Warning Network a few minutes after the earthquake, the maximum intensity of the 5.0 magnitude earthquake in Yingjiang County, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province on June 12 was about 6 degrees.
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