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Earthquake Monitoring System at Physics Department, Universitas Gadjah

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 Earthquake Monitoring System at Physics Department,
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
(Present and Next Plan)
Afif Rakhman1,a), Agfianto Eko Putra2), Ade Anggraini1), Michael Guenther3),
Wolfgang Kohl3), Bierger G-Luehr3), Kirbani Sri Brotopuspito1), and Wiwit
Suryanto1, b)
1
Department of Physics, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Sekip Utara, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Department of Computer Science and Electronics, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Sekip Utara, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2
3
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam

afif_rakhman@mail.ugm.ac.id
a)
b)
ws@ugm.ac.id

Abstract. Era of openness at the moment strongly supports research activities. Each research institution able to share
many things for continuous improvement, especially for the humanitarian purposes. One global issue today is the
collaboration in forecasting and mitigation of earthquake. The collaboration in provision of seismic data and the
development of monitoring systems could provide great benefits for this purpose. This paper discusses the development
of real-time earthquake monitoring system in Department of Physics, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta,
Indonesia. In 2012, we collaborated with GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) German Research Centre for Geosciences to
build a permanent broadband seismic stations in Kaliurang, Yogyakarta The station is located about 7 km from the
summit of Mount Merapi. The monitoring system was then developed with the utilization of seismological software
SeisComP3 from GFZ and virtual private server (VPS) services from our university. SeisComp3 can be used for realtime
data acquisition, processing, and distribution (in-out sharing). Using this software, we integrate the seismic data derived
from Kaliurang Seismic Station with open-data from 25 seismic stations of Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan
Geofisika (BMKG), Indonesia. VPS is utilized in relation with the conveniences in upgrading resources, maintenance,
and remote access. Some development will be conducted in terms of station number, telemetry technology, and
seismological web applications based on Python (data services and noise toolkit).

INTRODUCTION
Era of opennes at the moment strongly support research activities. Starting from open-source era, various
research institution thought to share other things for continuous improvement collectively. It is becoming more
prominent when associated with the humanitarian purpose, especially the safety aspects during a natural disaster.
One global issue today is the collaboration in forecasting and mitigation of disasters, especially earthquakes. The
goal is to minimize the number of casualties and other losses that may occur. The collaboration in provision of
seismic data and development of monitoring systems can provide substantial benefits for this purpose [1].
Yogyakarta is one of the provinces in Indonesia, located on the island of Java. Mount Merapi, one of the most
active volcanoes in Indonesia, located in northern part of this province. The last major eruption occurred in October
2010 [2]. Around 353 people died at that time and more than 350,000 people had been evacuated from the impacted
areas. The southern part of Yogyakarta bordered by Indian Ocean with high level of seismicity at the junction
between Eurasian Plate and Indo-Australian plate. Even though the magnitude is not too large, this earthquake has
resulted in very serious damage, about 5700 people died, and left hundreds of thousands lost their homes [3].
 This paper discusses the development of real-time earthquake monitoring system in the Department of Physics,
Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The monitoring system is expected to be used to
participate in the study related to the forecasting and the mitigation of earthquake in Indonesia, especially in area of
Yogyakarta. The system is also expected to be developed into a system that is adaptive or customable for
researchers to conduct studies with the specific methods and or area coverage.

EXISTING INSTALLATION
In 2012, we collaborated with GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences to build a permanent broadband
seismic stations in Kaliurang, Yogyakarta [4]. The station is located about 7 km from the summit of Mount Merapi
and 20 km from UGM. The existing installation scheme is shown in Figure 1. The station is equipped with a
broadband seismometer Guralp CMG-3T and EarthData PR6-24 Datalogger. The datalogger is connected to an RF
telemetry modem with a Yagi antenna. Same devices (modem and antenna) are also installed in the 5th Floor of
Graduate Studies, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (FMIPA), UGM. Communication between the two
modems is point-to-point at a frequency of 900 MHz. The radio-based communication can run smoothly so far.
Nonetheless, the use of this communication will continue to be evaluated in line with increased activity in the
property development between the two locations. This is feared to reduce the quality of the radio signal.

FIGURE 1. The existing installation scheme

The odem in FMIPA is then connected to router and gateway devices in same place and passed via fiber optic
communication to university's computer center (DSSDI UGM). We utilize the facility of virtual private server (VPS)
in DSSDI. DSSDI provide full access to the root user, so each VPS has a configuration that can be set up just like on
a physical server. VPS become the primary choice considering the advantages in terms of upgrading resources,
maintenance, and remote access. VPS can be upgraded easily because basically VPS is a virtualization of server and
network in a high-performance host server [5]. VPS professionally managed by DSSDI, so the users is relatively
free from maintenance activities. Assuredness servers in an active condition is also very high.
In VPS, we have installed seismological software SeisComp3 from GFZ (Figure 2). This is a powerful
monitoring software that can be aligned with Earthworm from Incorported Research Institutions for Seismology
(IRIS) [6]. The software can be used for realtime data acquisition, processing, and distribution (in-out sharing) using
seedlink protocol based on tcp/ip communication. Using this software, we integrate the seismic data derived from
Kaliurang Seismic Station with the open-data from 25 seismic stations of BMKG (Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi,
dan Geofisika), Indonesia. These stations belonging to the GEOFON Network. The Data obtained from the GFZ
Seismological Data Archive. For a while, the data from our station only can be acccessed by GFZ for reasons of
network security in DSSDI UGM. With the utilization of VPS, remote access to the the software can be made
anywhere via internet.

FIGURE 2. Display of two SeisComp3 windows (scrttv and scmv)

NEXT PLAN
The next development plan to the existing monitoring system is shown in Figure 3. The additon of the station related
to the study with specific method and or area that will be conducted. Our long term target is the realization of
seismic network of Physics Department, UGM for monitoring of volcanic and tectonic activity more thoroughly in
Yogyakarta area and its surrounding. Other wireless technologies is being explored to be applied into the system [7].
Along with the rapid development of 3G and 4G signal coverage in Yogyakarta area from cellular operators, cellular
IP modem technology is being considered to be applied into communication system. Beside that, some
seismological application based on Python will be developed. ObsPy is one of open-source project based on Phyton
for further seismic data processing. ObsPy library can be used to develop custom graphical user interface
applications [8]. Django is also Python based open-source project for the development of web based application.
The combination of both can be used to produce seismological web application. Our short-term targets is the
development of seismological application related to data services and noise analysis. IRIS has developed Wilber 3
[9] and DMC Noise Toolkit [10] for this purposes.
 FIGURE 3. Next plan of monitoring system

SUMMARY
The collaboration in provision of seismic data and development of monitoring systems can provide substantial
benefits for the forecasting and the mitigation activities of earthquake. Beginning with the collaboration with GFZ,
we start to develope real time earthquake monitoring system in our place. We utilize SeisComp3 software and VPS
service. The monitoring system is expected to be developed into a system that is adaptive or customable for
researchers to conduct studies with the specific methods and or area coverage. This existing installation will
continue to be developed in terms of station number, telemetry technology, and seismological web applications
based on Python (data services and noise toolkit). The collaboration with other agencies need to be pursued in order
to realize the purposes.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Part of this work was supported by the project of “Hibah Penelitian Dosen Departemen Fisika FMIPA UGM
2016”.,
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