From July 12 to 14, the IGCP-724 team invited Professor Yuji Sano, a world-renowned gas geochemistry expert from Japan, and Professor Antonio Caracausi, co-leader of the project, to Beijing to attend a seminar and training course on geochemical anomalies in seismic regions.

Yuji Sano and Antonio Caracausi gave training presentations at the seminar, the reports were titled “Helium anomaly related to inland earthquakes in Japan” and New geochemical perspectives towards the multidisciplinary monitoring in active seismic regions: The case study of Italy”, respectively. The two described their countries' experience in applying fluid geochemistry for earthquake forecasting, including the construction of observation stations, identification of anomalies, and integrated monitoring by multidisciplinary means. At the seminar, experts from Tianjin University, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) and Institute of Earthquake Forecasting had an in-depth discussion on the existing problems in the connection of fluid geochemistry anomalies to earthquakes with professors Yuji Sano and Antonio Caracausi.

After the seminar, the experts also went to a field observation station in the suburb of Beijing to learn about the observation equipment and data analysis there, and gave useful suggestions.

More than 40 scientific and technological workers from China, Japan and Italy participated in the seminar, and more than 10 graduate students and postdocs benefited from the training course.