The Chengdu High-Tech Institute for Disaster Mitigation has recently built a 400,000 square kilometer earthquake warning system, which overtakes the size of Japan’s 377,000 square kilometer system to become the biggest of its kind in the world. The system also features an average warning response time of seven seconds after the earthquake occurs. The system provides warnings for eight provinces including Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, and Shaanxi, and features 1,213 earthquake monitoring instruments as well as warning centers, and makes use of various methods to receive and publish information regarding incoming earthquakes. The 160 million RMB project covers an area which houses over 80 million people as well as high speed rail tracks, subways, chemical plants, nuclear plants, and other necessary lifelines. So far, the system has conducted 1,200 seismic surveys and successfully provided warnings for the earthquake that occurred in Yunnan’s Qiaojia County on February 19.

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