K-Prototypes Algorithm for Clustering The Tectonic Earthquake in Sulawesi Island

Abstract

Natural disasters that had occurred in Indonesia consist of hydro-meteorology: floods, droughts, and landslides, geophysical: volcanic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and biological: epidemics. Regarding the tectonic earthquake on Sulawesi Island, there are at least 2 earthquake disasters that became national disasters, namely in Central Sulawesi and West Sulawesi in the range of 2017 to 2021. This study aims to cluster tectonic earthquakes on Sulawesi Island, from 2017 to 2020, as the basis for formulating disaster mitigation plans. This study used tectonic earthquake data from 2017 to 2020 obtained from BMKG Gowa, Indonesia. The variables used are magnitude, depth, and distance category. Because they are mixed variables, this study used a k-prototype algorithm. There are four clusters in 2017, six clusters in 2018, five clusters in 2019, and six clusters in 2020 based on the ratio of within-cluster distance against between-cluster distance. It can be related to the active fault on Sulawesi Island. The characteristics of clusters form each year are the greater magnitude of the earthquake, the deeper of deep and the category distance is dominated by the regional level.