Universitas Indonesia

PREDICTING HYPOCENTER AND VELOCITY OF EARTHQUAKE BY NUMERICAL METHOD USING GUI MATLAB Rino Idul Putra, Achmad Andi Kaswandi, Tubagus Fatwa P Department of Physics Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science Universitas Indonesia

Indonesia is located in the ring of fire, so it has a likelihood of earthquake occuring. Preventive action could be done by improving the study of the magnitude of earthquake and its hypocentre, so datas which are collected that could be used as an indication to predict when a dangerous earthquake will threaten a certain location. The determination of hypocenter and magnitude of earthquake is not an easy task because it requires an accurate method to determine it. In this paper we will use data of location in coordinates (lattitude,longitude and elevation) along with travel time recorded in every station(seismometer) around the source of earthquake. Hypocenters and the velocity of the earthquake is calculated using numerical methods using MATLAB. Finally the results of the calculation of predicted earthquake hypocentrum and its location is displayed in a Graphical User Interface MATLAB. Keywords : Earthquake, hypocentrum, velocity of seismic wave, GUI MATLAB.