China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) will provide an earthquake notification service to the public through its microblogging account, the center said on December 17.

CENC joined forces with Weibo.com and promised that earthquake information would be pushed to all terminal users in the epicenter regions within 10 seconds of the earthquake.

Earthquake alerts will also be available through the center's official Weibo platform, according to Pan Huaiwen, Director of CENC.

"The move is to ensure fast and accurate earthquake information access for the people, and to help mitigate panic after the earthquake," Pan said.