Unexpected earthquake of June 25th, 2015 in Madiun, East Java

Andri Dian Nugraha, Pepen Supendi, Hasbi Ash Shiddiqi, and Sri Widiyantoro

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Unexpected Earthquake of June 25th, 2015 in Madiun, East Java

Andri Dian Nugraha1, Pepen Supendi2, 3, Hasbi Ash Shiddiqi2, Sri Widiyantoro2

1
Global Geophysical Research Group, Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung,
Indonesia
2
Earth Sciences Graduate Program, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung,
Indonesia
3
Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG), Bandung Station, Indonesia.

Abstract. An earthquake with magnitude 4.2 struck Madiun and its vicinity on June 25, 2015. According to Indonesian
Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the earthquake occurred at 10:35:29 GMT+7 and was
located in 7.73o S, 111.69 o E, with a depth of 10 km. At least 57 houses suffered from light to medium damages. We
reprocessed earthquake waveform data to obtain an accurate hypocenter location. We manually picked P- and S-waves
arrival times from 12 seismic stations in the eastern part of Java. Earthquake location was determined by using
Hypoellipse code that employs a single event determination method. Our inversion is able to resolve the fix-depth and
shows that the earthquake occurred at 10:35:27.6 GMT+7 and was located in 7.6305o S, 111.7529 o E with 14.81 km
focus depth. Our location depicts a smaller travel time residual compared to that based on the BMKG result. Focal
mechanism of the earthquake was determined by using HASH code. We used first arrival polarity of 9 seismic records
with azimuthal gap less than 90o, and estimated take-off angles by using assumption of homogenous medium. Our focal
mechanism solution shows a strike-slip mechanism with strike direction of 163o, which may be related to a strike-fault in
Klangon, an area to the east of Madiun.

INTRODUCTION
The BMKG reported that an earthquake struck Madiun, East Java, on June 25, 2015. Location of the earthquake
was reported in 7.73o S -111.69 o E or 12 km southeast of Madiun, with a depth of 10 km and with origin time at
10:35:29 GMT+7. The earthquake subsequently caused minor to medium damage for at least 57 houses.
The Madiun basin, East Java, is surrounded by several volcanes i.e Mount Wilis on the east, Mount Lawu on the
west, the Kendeng Hills on the north and Southern mountains on the south [1]. The Madiun zone is covered by
pleistocene alluvial sediment composed of volcanics materials e.g. gravel, tuff, and pumice [2,3].

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 METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING INTRODUCTION

Earthquake Location

We employed HYPOELLIPSE [4,5] code to locate the Madiun earthquake using reprocessed arrival times data.
HYPOELLIPSE code locates an earthquake location based on Geiger’s method [6] which minimize travel time
residuals between observation data and calculated travel times [7]. This code also allows to calculate using distant
seismic networks by employing spherical earth travel times tables. We manually repicked P-and S-wave arrival
times for 12 seismic stations around eastern Java. The arrival times picking was controlled using Wadati diagram [8].
Seismic velocity model was adopted from Wagner et al. [9]. can edit or delete the content provided in this template
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Earthquake Location

Focal mechanism of the 2015 Madiun earthquake was determined using HASH code employed first motions data
and take-off angles [10]. The possibility of errors from earthquake location and velocity model was taken into
account during inversions. We determined first motion patterns for each station. A total of nine stations with
azimuthal gap less than 90o were used to calculate the focal mechanism. We determined take-off angles using
homogeneous seismic velocity model.

METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING INTRODUCTION

Location of the Madiun earthquake based on our inversion is 7.6305o S, 111.7529 o E with 14.81 km focus depth
(Figure 1). Our location is located 13.06 km northeast of BMKG location. Furthermore, our inversion is able to
resolve the fix-depth. Our location showed lower travel time residual compared to the BMKG result. The location of
our result became closer to Klangon village, Madiun, where several damages were reported. We suggested that
damages in this area were may be due to amplification effect of the alluvium sediment that covers this region.
Despite of its low magnitude, this earthquake could cause minor to medium damage because of its shallow depth
and amplification effect.
Focal mechanism solution showed a strike-slip mechanisms with strike direction 163o, dip 88o and rake angle
175o. The choice of this strike direction is based on strike-slip fault feature in the northeast Klangon. Even tough, the
fault line ends around 21 km northeast of our location, there is a possibility the fault extents through the earthquake
locations.

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 FIGURE 1. Focal mechanism of our inversion result along with BMKG’s location. Turqoise box is location of Klangon, red
triangles are volcanoes, and black lines are strike-slip faults base on Hartono et al. [11]

CONCLUSIONS

The Madiun earthquake with magnitude 4.2 occurred in June 25, 2015 and located 7.6305o S, 111.7529 o E with
14.81 km depth. This earthquake caused light to medium damage to several houses due to its shallow depth and
amplification effect of alluvium sediment in this area. The mechanism of Madiun earthquake is strike-slip with 163o,
dip 88o and rake angle 175o. We suggest that this earthquake is may be related to strike-slip fault on northeast
Klangon.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We gratefully acknowledge the BMKG for waveform data. We thank to Graduate Research on Earthquake on
Earthquake and Active Tectonics (GREAT) Faculty of Earth Science and Technology ITB, and Near Surface
Geophysics Laboratory, Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering ITB for supporting this research. Figure in
this manuscript were created using Generic Mapping Tools [12]. Topography and bathymetry data was taken from
SRTM 30 Plus [13].

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