Processing Receiver Function Data in Mentawai Region, Sumatra

Abstract

The Mentawai Islands are located in the western part of Sumatra, in the Indo-Australian and Eurasian plate subduction zone. Because of these tectonic settings, the Mentawai Region has a high level of seismicity, making it particularly appealing for subsurface structure study. We used the receiver function method in this study to see response receiver function on plate subduction zone and compare the two deconvolution. This method uses the conversion of P-to-S waves, which have a larger amplitude in the radial component than vertical waves. The deconvolution technique is used to extract the two components of the receiver function signal. Water level deconvolution and iterative deconvolution were employed in this study. In practice, any deconvolution method cannot produce a suitable receiver function due to various methodologies that cannot be used in all conditions. Therefore, an evaluation is needed of each deconvolution method used to obtain the best results. This study utilizes two teleseismic stations located in the north and south of Mentawai, which were obtained through the IRIS website, and applied the Butterworth filter to obtain organized and noise-free data. The first results show that the water level is stronger than the iterative, which is more sensitive to the Gaussian filter width parameter. However, they produced almost identical results at both stations, precisely the arrival time of Ps, which was in 3-4 seconds and was followed by a low velocity.