Bandung Seismic Experiment: Towards Tomographic Imaging by Using Ambient Seismic Noise

Bandung is one of the most densely populated cities in Indonesia with vital infrastructures. On the other hand, this area is surrounded by potential sources of earthquakes that make Bandung vulnerable to earthquakes. Structure of seismic velocity and sediment thickness are crucially needed in the earthquake hazard reduction program for Bandung. Based on this consideration, we deployed 64 seismic stations over the Bandung basin to record seismic ambient noise. In this study, we employed a cross-correlation method to the simultaneously recorded data to retrieve interstation Green's functions. We measured group velocity of the retrieved Green's functions by using frequency-time analysis technique. By the end of this project, the set of interstation group velocity will be inverted to image the shallow seismic velocity structure of the Bandung basin and its surrounding areas including Mt. Tangkuban Parahu and Lembang fault. As the first stage of this work, currently we focus on Green's function calculation as well as the interstation group velocity measurements. The general characteristics of group velocity can be evaluated from the plot of cross-correlation function as a function of its interstation distance.