China: There Will Be No Earthquakes During Olympics
Written by on July 20th, 2008 in Latest News.
The national seismic monitoring network has not detected any sign a strong earthquake would hit Beijing during the Olympics next month, a senior expert with the China Earthquake Networks Center said in the capital on Saturday.
The 107 quake-monitoring stations of the network cover a 150,000-sq-km area around the capital and are said to be the most extensive such network in the country. It can detect a temblor as light as magnitude 1.0 and report it within five to 10 minutes, Zhang Xiaodong, deputy director of the networks center, said at a press conference.
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