On the morning of May 5, a 3.6 magnitude earthquake occurred in Pingwu County, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province. The mainland microblogging again. Netizens pointed out that the “Sichuan Mianyang earthquake” microblogging phrase introduced as a “ten magnitude earthquake”, “a shock”. A similar situation occurred on Weibo at the end of last month when an earthquake hit Ya’an, Sichuan.
At 9:51 a.m. on May 5, a 3.6-magnitude earthquake occurred in Pingwu County, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province (32.40 degrees north latitude, 104.02 degrees east longitude), with a depth of 10 kilometers.
The “China Earthquake Network” WeChat public number said that, according to the China Earthquake Network Quick Report Directory, there were 130 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or higher within 200 kilometers of the epicenter of this earthquake in the past five years, the largest earthquake was a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Jiuzhaigou County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan on August 8, 2017 (91 kilometers from the epicenter of this earthquake).
“Sichuan Mianyang earthquake” this article soon rushed on the microblogging hot search list. As of 12:45 p.m. on the 5th, the phrase had been read by nearly 100 million people and discussed by more than 27,000.
The phrase “Sichuan Mianyang earthquake” quickly made it to the Weibo hot search list. (Screenshot from Weibo)
Many netizens commented that they were concerned about the news because the entry said it was a “magnitude 10” earthquake. More people said it was “scary”.
“I just clicked in and the whole introduction of a magnitude 10 earthquake scared me to death.” “So speechless, I thought the level 10, a shock.”
“Scared silly, just clicked in thought to engage in a ten magnitude earthquake …… I thought about a ten magnitude earthquake, should all the news are broadcast ah?” “Scared me to death. I also said that the words of ten, I was in Chengdu how no tremor.”
“I also think. Obviously three levels why introduce ten levels. Are you trying to cause panic?” “The marketing number that sent the tenth magnitude earthquake is what is a major disease?”
On the morning of May 5, a 3.6 magnitude earthquake occurred in Pingwu County, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province. The mainland microblogging site made another oops and was accused by netizens. (Microblog screenshot composite)
Late last month, a similar situation occurred on mainland microblogs.
On the morning of April 29, a 3.1 magnitude earthquake occurred in Meishan District, Ya’an City, Sichuan Province. The introduction of the phrase “Sichuan Ya’an earthquake” on Weibo at that time also made a mistake, using the 2013 “7.0 magnitude earthquake”, which also caused many netizens to worry.
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