Rescuers transfer a senior woman to a safe location in Fuji town of Luxian county, Southwest China's Sichuan province, on Sept 16, 2021. [Photo: chinadaily.com.cn/Xiang Qian]
After the Wenchuan quake, Wang, a postdoctoral fellow in theoretical physics at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, set up the Institute of Care-Life to research and develop the early warning system.
Since then, it has sent correct early warnings after 64 destructive quakes, including the magnitude 7 earthquake in Lushan, Sichuan, in 2013, the magnitude 6.5 earthquake in Ludian, Yunnan province, in 2014, and the magnitude 7 earthquake in Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, in 2017.
The institute's system, installed in 31 provincial-level regions. covers 2.2 million square kilometers and is the world's largest earthquake early warning network, he said.