An earthquake of magnitude 5. 1 occurred in Sunan County, Zhangye City, Gansu Province. Do you know how to identify earthquake rumors?

We should combine common sense of life, scientific knowledge and official information to identify earthquake rumors.

First, there are so many rumors about the earthquake. Although earthquake rumors are only four simple words, they contain many aspects. Earthquake rumors can be about how to save yourself in an earthquake, or they can be rumors on the Internet that earthquakes have occurred in some places. We have different methods to identify different earthquake rumors.

Second, identify earthquake rumors with common sense of life. Earthquakes have occurred on the earth for millions of years. In the long years of human development, our ancestors summed up a lot of common sense about earthquakes. When encountering earthquake rumors, you can refer to these common sense of life to identify them.

For example, some people say that high-rise residents should take the elevator to escape when an earthquake occurs. It is easy for us to judge that this is a rumor, because power may be cut off when a strong earthquake occurs, which is basic common sense.

Third, identify rumors with scientific knowledge. We are a lucky generation, because in this new era, we have the opportunity to receive scientific education, which is a life that the ancients and even people not long ago could not have. At that time, due to the general lack of scientific knowledge, people could not correctly understand the phenomena caused by earthquakes.

Now we can completely identify scientific rumors with our scientific knowledge. For example, anyone who has studied geography knows that earthquakes are the result of plate movements, and the probability of earthquakes in areas not at the junction of plates is very low. So when someone says that there is an earthquake in Congo in western Africa, we can basically conclude that this is a rumor, because Congo is in the middle of the plate.

4. It is very complicated to use official information to identify rumors, especially the rumors about earthquakes published by some people, such as the rumors about an earthquake in a certain place in Sichuan, which sounds very real. For this kind of rumor, when we can't judge whether it is true or not, we can keep calm and search the official information first, and everything is subject to the official information.

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