Western Java Ambient Noise Tomography: A Preliminary Result

Abstract

Western Java, Indonesia, has at least three important active faults: the Cimandiri, Lembang, and Baribis Faults, which pose a great danger for the cities near them. It is crucial to have a better understanding of shallow crustal structure to delineate active faults and deep basins in order to support seismic hazard and disaster mitigation efforts in Indonesia. In this study, we perform ambient seismic noise tomography which can give better resolution of the shallow structure beneath western Java. We have deployed a seismometer network in the western to central Java region through a research collaboration program between the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and the Australian National University (ANU). We deployed 70 seismometer stations from June to January 2017 to acquire ambient seismic noise data. As the first stage of the data processing, we will focus on conducting single data preparation and cross-correlation to retrieve an estimate of Green’s functions between station pairs. We also use the frequency-time analysis technique to obtain dispersion curves to measure the interstation group velocity. The group velocity is use as an input in tomography inversion. Our preliminary results show low velocity anomalies associated with sedimentary basins and a high velocity anomaly associated with the southern mountains.