Yesterday, Tencent announced the launch of the earthquake early warning function on QQ, and upgraded the WeChat early warning function and the "Sichuan Earthquake Early Warning Platform WeChat Mini Program".
At present, this earthquake early warning service first covers Sichuan Province and its surrounding areas within 50 kilometers. This function can quickly send an early warning to users within 5 to 15 seconds after an earthquake of magnitude 5 or higher occurs in Sichuan Province, buying people precious time to escape.
How to set up WeChat:
WeChat users can click on the menu "Earthquake Warning" in the "Sichuan Earthquake Observatory", and then click "Agree to Privacy Protection - Turn on Earthquake Warning - Allow Warning Notification - Click Allow Location Authorization".
QQ setting method:
The operation of QQ users is also quite simple, through "QQ City Help", and then click "Earthquake Warning - Add Warning Location - Select Intensity Range".
It is worth mentioning that you need to stay following to receive the alert message, and you can't receive it if you unfollow or delete the location.
Tencent said it is working closely with the China Earthquake Administration to develop a nationwide WeChat earthquake warning service platform. The platform is currently in beta, indicating that the earthquake early warning service will soon be rolled out nationwide.
In addition, Tencent plans to gradually expand QQ's earthquake early warning function to more provinces, further expanding the coverage of this life-protection network.
In addition to WeChat QQ, in fact, many mobile phones have their own earthquake warning function, and users can set it up in the mobile phone system. It's a good feature and it's a good thing to set up, but I hope you'll never get a chance to use it.