Today, Tencent suddenly announced that it has launched an earthquake early warning function on WeChat and QQ platforms, which has now covered the whole province of Sichuan, and can realize the ability to issue earthquake warnings for earthquakes of magnitude 5 or above in Sichuan Province 5-15 seconds after the earthquake.
In addition, Tencent said that friends in other provinces should not worry, the national WeChat earthquake early warning service platform will be launched soon, and QQ will gradually cover more provinces.
How to use the WeChat earthquake warning function?
First of all, you need to follow the relevant official account or mini program, for example, users in Sichuan who have completed the coverage can search and follow the "Sichuan Earthquake Observatory" official account on WeChat, and the first step after following is to click "Allow Use" geographical location, as shown in the figure.
After allowing the use of geolocation, click the Portrait icon in the upper right corner to enter the official account details page, and then click ... in the upper right corner, and then select "Settings", as shown in the figure.
In the open Official Account settings, turn off "Message Do Not Disturb", this item must be turned off, because if you turn on Message Do Not Disturb, it will not remind you if there is an earthquake warning.
Finally, you can add an alert location on the homepage, and the location can add your home or company location, etc., as shown in the figure.
After completing the above operations, when an earthquake occurs in your area or there is a significant tremor, you will receive an early warning notification, and there will also be a sound increase, which can better fight for users to avoid emergencies
QQ earthquake early warning setting method:
Search and follow the "QQ Whole City Help" subscription account on QQ, and click "Earthquake Warning" to enter the earthquake warning setting interface.
Click "Alert Location" to add the city or hometown you care about (set up to two).
Click "Intensity Range" to select the intensity range of the location you care about, and you can receive an earthquake warning message within the selected intensity range when an earthquake occurs, if you don't select it, the default is "more than 3 degrees (strong felt ground tremor)".
After completing the above settings, when an earthquake occurs, you will receive an earthquake warning message according to your settings.
It should be noted that users can only receive the warning information if they follow the subscription account, and they will not receive the earthquake warning message if they unfollow or delete the geographical location.
In addition, many Android phones come with earthquake early warning function, you can also bring your own application settings, different models of mobile phones set up different methods, you can click on the blue font behind to view: mobile phone earthquake early warning guide is the most complete, critical moment can save lives!
The above is how to set up the earthquake early warning function on WeChat, which is currently only supported by users in Sichuan, and other regions still need to wait for the platform to be launched.
In general, this practical new function of QQ WeChat is quite solid, and it can save lives at critical moments. Of course, Sesame Girl hopes that we will never use this feature, but just in case, it is recommended to set it up in advance.