Xiaomi has just announced that its MIUI has successfully announced its users in China regarding 35 earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 and higher. The company’s software has even offered support to 25 provinces in the country.

The consumer electronics maker shared this achievement on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website, along with an image poster. For those unaware, various smartphones nowadays feature an early warning system that is built into the device to offer push notifications regarding upcoming natural disasters. In the announcement, the company also stated that it has reached a total number of 8,640,477 devices including smartphones and TVs with its early warning systems.

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The news shared by the Chinese tech giant arrives on the day of the 2021 National Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Day. These early warnings regarding earthquakes were sent to 25 provinces all across the nation but has yet to achieve a full coverage. Notably, the system from the compay has been active for more than 500 days and has so far detected 35 earthquakes.

Although, company officials have also announced that MIUI will also work with Disaster Mitigation Research Institute to optimize its early warning feature to improve it even further. These natural disaster warnings from the company will also be improved in cooperation with the National Early Warning Release Center, National Emergency Broadcasting, and China Earthquake Networks as well. So hopefully, the improvement in the future would help prevent any major casualities in cases of natural disasters in the future.

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