Big Data Environment for Realtime Earthquake Data Acquisition and Visualization

Abstract

Indonesia is a country that has the highest level of earthquake risk in the world. In the past 10 years, there have been ± 90,000 earthquake events recorded and always increasing along with the explosion of earthquake data occurs at any time. The process of collecting and analyzing earthquake data requires more effort and takes a long computational time. In this paper, we propose a new system to acquire, store, manage and process earthquake data in Indonesia in real-time, fast and dynamic by utilizing features in the Big Data Environment. This system improves computational performance in the process of managing and analyzing earthquake data in Indonesia by combining and integrating earthquake data from several providers to form a complete unity of earthquake data. An additional function is the existence of an API (Application Programming Interface) embedded in this system to provide access to the results of earthquake data analysis such as density, probability density function and seismic data association between provinces in Indonesia. The process in this system has been carried out in parallel and improved computing performance. This is evidenced by the computational time in the preprocessing process on a single-core master node, which requires 55.6 minutes, but a distributed computing process using 15 cores can speeds up with only 4.82 minutes.