Sri Widiyantoro

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Bandung Institute of Technology

Correction to: Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences https://doi.org/10.5614/j.eng.technol.sci.2024.56.3.1 The article titled "Investigation of Liquefaction in Balaroa, Petobo, and Jonooge (Central Sulawesi, Indonesia) Caused by the 2018 Palu Earthquake Sequence" , written by Rahmat Triyono, Sri Widiyantoro, Zulfakriza, Pepen Supendi, A...

Plain Language Summary This study presents a new and detailed 3‐D model of seismic wavespeed variations in the crust and upper mantle beneath the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Data from over 6,000 earthquakes that occurred between 2018 and 2023 and were recorded by 126 seismic stations distributed throughout Sulawesi were exploited to construct...

The city of Gorontalo, in the north of Sulawesi Island, has a relatively high potential for earthquake events. This condition is influenced by the meeting of three plates, namely the active subduction zone of the Sulawesi Sea trench, which is subducting to the south, and the Maluku Sea trench (Sangihe Trench), which is subducting to the west. Apart...

The Lembang Fault is one of the major faults in the province of West Java, approximately 10 km north of its capital, Bandung, a city inhabited by more than 2 million people. The fault exhibits distinct geometrical characteristics in its 29 km length, transitioning from normal, strike-slip, to vertical faulting mechanisms. Two studies have evidence...

The tectonic complexity in Indonesia has made it one of the most interesting targets for studies on seismic tomography. The Indian oceanic plate sunk beneath the Eurasian continental plate, forming the subduction zone in Southern Indonesia. This activity led to the formation of volcanoes along the Sunda Arc, including East Java, the research area c...

Bandung is one of the major cities of Indonesia, a country that often experiences damaging earthquakes. Geologically, Bandung is located in the Bandung Basin, which has a thick sedimentary fill that likely has a significant effect on seismic ground motion. In this study, a microtremor array experiment was conducted to estimate the near-surface S-wa...

The Sunda–Banda arc transition zone features the collision of the Indo-Australian oceanic plate and the Australian continent, resulting in intricate geological and geodynamic conditions. Tectonic activity in this region is shaped by the convergence of multiple major plates, including the Indo-Australian oceanic plate and the Eurasian plate. The cru...

Global Positioning System (GPS) data after the 21 November 2022 Mw 5.6 Cianjur earthquake are crucial for understanding the physical processes during the postseismic phase. New continuous GPS stations were installed and recorded data for periods ranging from five to twenty-five days after the mainshock. The daily time series data at GPS stations sh...

Two shallow earthquakes of moment magnitude 6.2 and 5.8 occurred in the central arm of Sulawesi on 26 July 2021 and 26 August 2021, respectively. The fault responsible for the earthquake had previously only been partially mapped, thus making further analysis of its characteristics crucial for the assessment of seismic hazard. In this study, we expl...

Sumatra Island and its surroundings, Indonesia, are one of the most active tectonics in the world. The Aceh-Andaman earthquake, one of the most destructive earthquakes in the world, occurred there. It has attracted many earth scientists to apply various methods, including seismic tomography, to understand the island's subsurface structure and tecto...

The liquefaction that occurred in the city of Palu on September 28, 2018, was caused by a series of significant earthquakes that took place in a relatively short time around 25 minutes after the main earthquake of magnitude 7.5. This event was followed by aftershocks of magnitudes 6.4, 6.2, and 6.1. The magnitude 6.2 aftershock occurred at 10.16 UT...

Kalimantan and Sulawesi are located within the complex tectonic setting of central Indonesia. The tectonic evolution process during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic led to the formation of this region. Studies of Moho depth variation beneath this region are still limited due to the lack of local to regional scale seismic stations covering the entire Kalim...

The North Sulawesi subduction zone is characterized by southward subduction of the Celebes Sea slab to a depth of ∼250 km, mainly overlying the Sangihe slab that subducts west from the Molucca Sea and penetrates the mantle transition zone. The palaeo‐subducted Sula slab dips northward and partially underlies both the Sangihe and Celebes Sea slabs....

Caving activity results in an increased induced seismicity which should be monitored to avoid massive and uncontrolled rock damage. This research was conducted at the Deep Mill Level Zone (DMLZ) underground mine, the deepest underground mine in Indonesia operated by PT Freeport Indonesia. This research aims to monitor cave propagation by using 4D t...

To overcome the limited information in the northern waters of Sulawesi Island, ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) were installed in the northern part of the Makassar Strait and the Sulawesi Sea. OBS data were analysed using passive seismic methods to determine the characteristics of noise and site response in the Makassar Strait and the Celebes Sea. P...

On 21 November 2022, a destructive earthquake (Mw 5.6) struck Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, resulting in at least 321 deaths, damage to 47,000 buildings, and economic losses of up to 7.7 trillion Indonesian Rupiahs (∼US $546 million). Prior to this earthquake, the fault on which slip occurred had not been mapped, thus making further analysis cruci...

This study investigates the distribution of coseismic slip of the 19th August 2018 Mw 7.2 Lombok earthquakes, Indonesia, using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning System (GPS) data. Two look directions on ascending, with a maximum displacement of 27 cm and 35 cm, and one on descending of Sentinel-1 SAR data, with...

On September 26, 2019, an Mw 6.5 earthquake occurred 23 km northeast of Ambon City, Indonesia, followed by numerous aftershock series related to a complex fault network reactivation in the Ambon and Seram region. Using moment tensor inversion, we identify the kinematics of fault reactivation based on the focal mechanism solution of 20 aftershocks w...

Sumatra Island and its surroundings, Indonesia, are one of the most active tectonics in the world. The Aceh-Andaman earthquake, one of the most destructive earthquakes in the world, occurred there. It has attracted many earth scientists to apply various methods, including seismic tomography, to understand the island's subsurface structure and tecto...

In the past decade, cross-correlations of ambient seismic noise have been exploited in various applications to model the shallow-to-deep structure of Earth’s interior through tomographic inversions. The stack of cross-correlations between a 2-station pair represents empirical Green’s function and comprises the information of the subsurface structur...

The 2018 Mw 6.2 Situbondo earthquake occurred in an active fault where no earthquakes of magnitude 6 or higher have been recorded in the last decade. Since the fault geometry responsible of this earthquake is not well identified, we analyze the mainshock and aftershock of the 2018 earthquake. We conduct hypocenter relocation of earthquakes from 10...

Situated on the northern coast of the Indonesian island of Java, Jakarta and its metropolitan area (Greater Jakarta) are subject to significant earthquake hazards from a subduction zone south of Java and nearby active crustal faults. The seismic risk may be even higher because Greater Jakarta resides on a sedimentary basin filled with thick Pliocen...

The greater Jakarta area is located in west Java and has a high earthquake risk due to the subduction of the Australian Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. Previous hazard studies have been carried out using various seismic probability approaches. This study presents a new probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) by developing an updated seismic...

Lombok is one of the islands in the transitional zone from the Sunda Arc to the Banda Arc, Indonesia. In the mid-2018, the island of Lombok was shaken by a series of strong earthquakes, started with a moment magnitude (M w ) 6.4 earthquake on July 29, 2018 followed by earthquakes on August 5 (M w 7.0), August 9 (M w 5.9), and August 19 (M w 6.3 and...

The seismically active Sumatra subduction zone has generated some of the largest earthquakes in the instrumental record, and both historical accounts and paleogeodetic coral studies suggest these were large enough to transfer stress to the surrounding region, including the Great Sumatran Fault (GSF). Therefore, evaluating the stress transfer from t...

Spectral analysis method is commonly used in estimating moment magnitude for small to medium size earthquake. Most moment magnitude studies have been focused on the consistency of the average values with other methods. However, little attention is put into the study of moment magnitude sensitivity to its input parameter. In this study we attempted...

This paper presents the depth inversion of Rayleigh wave group velocity to obtain an S-wave velocity model from seismic ambient noise cross-correlation in western Java, Indonesia. This study utilizes the vertical component data of a temporary seismograph network deployed in 2016, which was used in a previous study to estimate fundamental mode Rayle...

A destructive earthquake (Mw 6.1) struck Pasaman, West Sumatra, Indonesia, on 25 February 2022, resulting in at least 18 deaths and damage to 1765 buildings. Our relocated foreshock, mainshock, and aftershocks and their source mechanisms reveal a previously unknown ~20 km long segment of the Sumatran Fault as a result of dextral strike-slip motion...

We present a new 3-D seismic structural model of the eastern Indonesian region and its surroundings from full-waveform inversion (FWI) that exploits seismic data filtered at periods between 15–150 s. SASSY21—a recent 3-D FWI tomographic model of Southeast Asia—is used as a starting model, and our study region is characterized by particularly good d...

Several earthquake incidents in the East Java province have resulted in numerous disadvantages such as damaged buildings and victims that were physically and emotionally wounded. The problem that has arisen in these situations is how victims of natural disasters often receive late responses and little to no information about relief efforts from aut...

High seismicity rates in and around West Java and Sumatra occur as a result of the Indo-Australian plate converging with and subducting beneath the Sunda plate. Large megathrust events associated with this process likely pose a major earthquake and tsunami hazard to the surrounding community, but further effort is required to help understand both t...

Cite this article as Supendi, P., N. Rawlinson, B. We reveal the existence of a previously unknown fault that generated the M w 7.3 Flores Sea earthquake, which occurred on 14 December 2021, approximately 100 km to the north of Flores Island, in one of the most complex tectonic settings in Indonesia. We use a double-difference method to relocate th...

The 2018 Situbondo earthquake occurred along an unidentified fault source in East Java, Indonesia. Historical records from 1821 to 2018 show that no earthquakes before 2018 were recorded in this region. In this study, we use Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data to estimate the coseismic displacements of stations in the study region. Signi...

In the case of mining in an inclined intrusion using the block caving method, the highest stress is usually concentrated in the seismogenic and abutment zones, especially in the front of the sloping area. In an inclined intrusion of more than 40°, the seismometer network is usually distributed in the facility area where the footwall area is also lo...

The Lembang Fault is located about eight km north of Bandung City, the capital city of the West Java province of Indonesia, with about 8.79 million people (dated 2020). Several studies state that the Lembang fault is an active fault with a maximum magnitude of 6.5 to 7. In terms of earthquake disaster mitigation, distinguishing characteristics of s...

One of the longest arcs in the world originated from the complexity of subduction zones is the Sunda Arc that covers 80% of Indonesia's active volcanoes, from the Andaman, Sumatra, Java, and the Lesser Sunda Islands. Previous research in magmatism in Sunda Arc has conceded that the continental crust is in the west and becomes progressively oceanic...

Recent borehole seismic deployments conducted along the Baribis Fault in northwestern Java reveal that it may be active. In this study, we exploit these data to locate proximal earthquakes using a relative relocation technique, estimate their moment magnitudes using a spectral fitting method and compute their focal mechanisms via waveform inversion...

The 2019 Mw 7.0 Banten, Indonesia, earthquake occurred at a 49 km depth in a relatively unknown region, where the geological structure did not clearly show the fault. In this study, we use the Global Navigation Satellite System data to analyse the fault source of the earthquake. Following the earthquake’s focal mechanism, we modelled a total of fou...

We present a new 3-D seismic structural model of the eastern Indonesian region and its surroundings from full-waveform inversion (FWI) that exploits seismic data filtered at periods between 15 - 150 s. SASSY21 - a recent 3-D FWI tomographic model of Southeast Asia - is used as a starting model, and our study region is characterized by particularly...

West Java, Indonesia, is located in the northern part of the subduction zone between the Australian and Eurasian plates, with a complex tectonic setting and high seismicity level. In 2016, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) and Australia National University (ANU) deployed 85 temporary seismometers to investigate this area. We constructed the shallow...

Structural complexity in the Sunda-Banda arc transition is a topic of much debate amongst Earth scientists. We have processed focal mechanism study using moment tensor inversion for 20 events in the region using the Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) data from 2014-2016 for earthquakes of magnitude Mw ≥ 5.0. Our result shows...

The Sumatra Island, which is close to the active subduction zone between the Indo-Australian and Eurasian plates, experienced numerous earthquakes in the historical past. One of those earthquakes is the 2004 Mw 9.1 off-Sumatra earthquake, considered to be the second largest event ever recorded in history after the 1960’s Chilean earthquake (Mw 9.5)...

The Mw 6.5 Pidie Jaya strike-slip earthquake struck Pidie Jaya, Aceh, on December 7, 2016. The aftershocks lasted until January 2017. The aftershocks, which were recorded by Indonesia’s Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) network on December 7–19, 2016, depicted northwest–southeast cluster orientation. While the aftershock...

We present the first continental‐scale seismic model of the lithosphere and underlying mantle beneath Southeast Asia obtained from adjoint waveform tomography (often referred to as full‐waveform inversion or FWI), using seismic data filtered at periods from 20 to 150 s. Based on >3,000 hr of analyzed waveform data gathered from ∼13,000 unique sourc...

The 14 January 2021 Mw 6.2 Mamuju-Majene earthquake occurred in West Sulawesi, Indonesia, preceded by three earthquakes with Mw 5.7, Mw 5.2 and Mw 4.3. The fault responsible for the mainshock remains an enigma. Using static Global Positioning System (GPS) data surrounding the epicentre, we estimated the coseismic displacements of the mainshock. Sig...

A destructive earthquake (Mw 6.1) struck East Java, Indonesia, on 10 April 2021, resulting in at least 10 deaths and damage to over 3000 buildings. Preliminary hypocenter determinations indicate that it was located ~20 km south of Java, at a depth of ~60 km, suggesting that it likely occurred within the subducting oceanic slab beneath the Sunda Arc...

Beginning on 30 June 2021, hundreds of earthquakes were detected beneath Semangko Bay in southernmost Sumatra, which is located adjacent to the Sunda Strait, a narrow sea passage that separates the islands of Java and Sumatra. A number of these earthquakes were large enough to be felt by people living in the city of Lampung, some 100 km to the east...

We use two‐plane‐wave tomography with a dense network of seismic stations across Sabah, northern Borneo, to image the shear wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle. Our model is used to estimate crustal thickness and the depth of the lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary (LAB) beneath the region. Calculated crustal thickness ranges betwe...

Social communication networks created during the 2018 earthquake sequence in Lombok, Indonesia using social network data from a social media platform, i.e., Facebook, and surveys in local communities were analyzed. The different modes of communication networks used during the disaster event and post-disaster mitigation were examined. Data on social...

Lombok is one of the islands in the transitional zone from the Sunda Arc to the Banda Arc, Indonesia. In the mid-2018, the island of Lombok was shaken by a series of strong earthquakes, started with a magnitude 6.4 earthquake on July 29, 2018 followed by earthquakes on August 5 (M 7.0), August 9 (M 5.9), and August 19 (M 6.3 and 6.9). Some research...

The seismically active Sumatra subduction zone has generated some of the largest earthquakes in the instrumental record, and both historical accounts and paleogeodetic coral studies indicate such activity has historical recorded megathrust earthquakes and transferred stress to the surrounding, including the Great Sumatran Fault (GSF). Therefore, ev...

To minimize the impacts of large losses and optimize the emergency response when a large earthquake occurs, an accurate early warning of an earthquake or tsunami is crucial. One important parameter that can provide an accurate early warning is the earthquake’s magnitude. This study proposes a method for estimating the magnitude, and some of the sou...

Subsurface images of an area with a thick volcanic layer generally cannot be well-imaged with conventional seismic exploration (seismic reflection) due to seismic wave scattering. Another method is needed to obtain an accurate subsurface image in a thick volcanic layer area. In this study, we applied ambient noise tomography (ANT) to image the shea...

The geological setting of Jakarta and its immediate surroundings are poorly understood, yet it is one of the few places in Indonesia that is impacted by earthquakes from both the Java subduction zone and active faults on land. In this study, a borehole seismic experiment with low noise characteristics was deployed to record seismic activity on the...

Hypocenter relocation is one of the keys to success in the analysis of seismicity induction in underground mines. Overburden thickness, topography, geological complexity, and mining activities can result in newly induced seismicity that can endanger the safety of underground mine workers. The relatively narrow underground mine area requires the mos...

The receiver function method is a method to image the earth subsurface by utilizing Ps conversion waves that are formed due to the velocity boundary. In general, the receiver function method estimates depth of structures such as the mantle-crust boundary by deconvoluting the vertical component from the horizontal component. Typical receiver functio...

The tectonic setting of Java Island is mainly controlled by the collision of Indo-Australian plate subducting the Eurasian plate. The high collision activity of Eurasian and Indo-Australian plates often causes megathrust earthquakes and the rise of arc magmatism that includes volcanic eruption. This study aims to determine the tectonic pattern bene...

The crust, when viewed over a long period, moves towards one another. Crusts might experience sudden slip on a fault plane and caused fractures or cracks. There are three different types of faults, normal, reverse, and strike-slip faults. Induced stress due to sudden rupture on fault planes capable of creating stress and need to be measured quantit...

The island of Ambon lies on complex tectonics, part of Banda Arc which is driven by the Australia – Eurasia collision. Historical earthquake data show that an earthquake resulting the greatest tsunami in Indonesia had occurred at Ambon Island. On 26 September 2019, Ambon was shaken by an M 6.5 earthquake at a depth of 10 km (BMKG). In this study, w...

The traditional method in determining first arrival time of earthquake dataset is time consuming process due to waveform manual inspection. Additional waveform attributes can help determine events detection. One of the widely used attribute is The Short Term Averaging/Long Term Averaging (STA/LTA) which is simply division moving average of waveform...

Earthquake swarms commonly come approximately active tectonic and volcanic area. Interestingly, the swarm events occurred ~23 km southwest from Mt. Salak-Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, from August 10 to November 24, 2019, and were recorded by local/regional network of the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG). Our prev...

The tectonic setting of Java island, located at southwestern edge of the Eurasia continent, is dominated by the subduction of Indo-Australia plate. One of the characteristics of active subduction is active seismicity, the generation of arc magmatism and volcanic activity. Mt. Merapi is one example of active volcano related with the subduction proce...

The plate movement, geological structure, magmatism, and seismic activity in the area of Bali to East Nusa Tenggara are mainly related with the subducting of Indo-Australian Plate underneath the Eurasian plate. The complexity is added with the recent collision of Australian continent lithosphere with the western Banda arc, along the islands of Flor...

The tectonic system of Eastern Indonesia is controlled by several major and minor plates, such as Indo-Australian, Australian plate, and Pacific plates. This area is known for its complexity, and high seismic activity. This study tries to image the complex structures beneath this region by employing regional events data and seismic tomography metho...

Seismic events detection and phase picking play an essential role in earthquake studies. Typical event detection is done visually or manually on recorded seismogram by choosing a series of higher amplitude signals recorded on at least 4 stations. More sophisticated methods have been used in event detection and picking with additional attributes suc...

The Sunda-Arc transition to the Banda Arc is located on the south of the Flores Island, Indonesia, where the Australian lithosphere is moving to the north direction. On-going subduction process dictates the tectonic setting though some studies also suggest a collision and obduction may occur in the past due to of plate buoyancy. This area has activ...

The inland seismic activity in Great Sumatran Fault (GSF) has significantly increased over the past several decades after the occurrence of historical large interplate earthquakes along the plate boundary. This condition led to some occurrences of historical intraplate earthquakes along Sumatran fault. To quantitatively examine the physical mechani...

Shear-wave splitting (SWS), or the propagation of two independent shear waves, can be used as an indicator of seismic anisotropy. In this study, we utilize this concept using aftershock data of the 2018 Lombok earthquake which had been acquired in period of August 4 – September 9, 2018. The goal of this research is to better understand the crack di...

On September 26, 2019, an earthquake (Mw 6.5) occurred in the northern part of Ambon Island, Molucca, East Indonesia. The National Authority show this earthquake caused infrastructures damage and 28 fatalities. Up to October 31, 2019, the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) seismic network had recorded 479 aftersho...

Our study area is located near island Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, West Timor, Indonesia and East Timor, popularly known as Sunda-Banda arc transition zone. The tectonic setting is mainly controlled by the movement of the oceanic lithosphere Indo-Australian plate subducting the Eurasian plate and Northward migration of Australian continental lithosphere...

The tectonic setting of our study area is located between the Island of Java and Timor Leste. The complexity of this region is started with two different plates, The Indo-Australian plate and the Eurasian plate that move with different orientations and convergence rate. This area also shows active seismic activity and has a series of active volcano...