CCTV News: On May 12, the Ministry of Emergency Management and the China Earthquake Administration held a safety knowledge press conference on "Everyone talks about safety, everyone knows about emergency" to introduce earthquake safety knowledge and earthquake prevention and disaster reduction work.

Zou Wenwei, director of the China Disaster Defense Association and popular science expert, said at the meeting that meteorological changes and earthquakes have no actual internal correlation, and the so-called "seismic cloud" actually cannot predict earthquakes.

In response to the remarks that there will be some signs before earthquakes, and whether an earthquake will occur can be judged based on abnormal behaviors of animals, "earthquake clouds", Zou Wenwei denied the rumor at the meeting, first, animal abnormalities did exist before some earthquakes, but they are just small sample events and do not represent the law of earthquake precursors; second, seismologists and meteorologists have verified that meteorological changes and earthquakes have no actual internal correlation, which is also proven by a large number of facts.

He pointed out that animal abnormalities are related to many factors, such as environmental changes and weather changes that can cause animal abnormalities. Animal group survival competition, and individual animal physiological, psychological changes and health problems can also cause animal abnormalities. In addition, the so-called "earthquake cloud" is some clouds with special shapes, such as the weird "radiation cloud", "rib cloud", and "fish scale cloud". These have reasonable explanations in meteorology, but they happen to happen before an earthquake, and the earthquake cannot be predicted.