Abstract:
The 14th annual meeting of China Earthquake Prediction Forum (CEPF), which was co-sponsored by Prediction Committee (PC) of China Seismological Society (SSoC), Numerical Earthquake Prediction Committee(NEPC) of SSoC and Earthquake Agency of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, was held on July 20-24, 2026 in Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. About 150 persons from ? universities, ? institutes from Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Earthquake Administration (CEA), ? Provincial Earthquake Agencies of CEA attended this conference. 14 special topics had been set up for academic exchange. 34 conference articles were collected, where the pier reviewed articles will be published by the journal of
Seismological and Geomagnetic Observation and Research in Supplementary Issue of 2025. During the 2 days room meeting, there were 28 orals and 19 posters presented, where 6 invited key note speakers and 11 invited sessional speakers presented the current research advances and future trend of earthquake prediction practice in China. There were 6 young presenters got excellent poster awards who obtained the permission of oral presentation in the following annual conferences of CEPF. Popular science lectures on 1920 Haiyuan
M8 earthquake and its disaster and rupture were organized for the one day field training workshop on site. Both PC of SSoC and NEPC of SSoC completed the general election during the conference. A short panel discussion on how to promote the link between current operational program of earthquake prediction and the numerical modelling of earthquake process, which is one of the bottleneck questions of current earthquake prediction research. Summaries of panel discussion included: 1) observation techniques and monitoring networks are the most fundamental issues; 2) reliable precursors for earthquake prediction need long time data series to feed deep machine learning; 3) the link of operational program and numerical modelling of earthquake processes is the key issue for promoting physical earthquake prediction; 4) From historical view, setting up test-site for big earthquake in north part of North-South seismic belt of China is significant both in special and temporal.