East China province encourages people to report anomalies that may foretell disasters

China's Jiangsu Province has recently published a newly revised set of regulations regarding quake prevention and disaster reduction reports Xinhua. "The new regulations give people a better way to express their worries," said Yang Jianjun from the Nanjing municipal bureau of seismology.

"It is good both for social stability and earthquake prediction. But not all the 'abnormalities' the general public find necessarily indicate a disaster," he added.