Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia DJA/BAT

Historical station operated by the Royal Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, Batavia.

Stations

Location	Code	Latitude	Longitude	Timespan	Components
Jakarta/Batavia	DJA/BAT	-6.18	106.77	1910	horizontal

Instrumentation

Wiechert 1908
Bosch 1912

Recording Medium

smoked paper

Data Availability

Using a high quality digital camera, approximately 500 of the fragile smoked paper records were photographed with funding from the Earth Observatory of Singapore.

no. available	format	dpi	color
500	photographs

The regional center of the Indonesian Bureau of Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) at Ciputat in the suburbs of Jakarta, holds the archives of historical seismograms recorded in Indonesia. Most valuable among them are about 70,000 Wiechert records of the Jakarta (ex-Batavia) station, going back to 1910.

Contact

For more information about this collection, please contact: < blank >

References

McComb, H.E. and C.J West (1931). List of Seismological Stations of the World, Bulletin of the National Research Council, 82, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., 119pp.

Okal, E. A. (2015). Historical seismograms: Preserving an endangered species. GeoResJ, 6, 53–64. doi: 10.1016/j.grj.2015.01.007