Abstract

The recent earthquake in Ranau, Sabah on 5 June2015, which killed 18 people,has opened up the reality ofimpending earthquakes in Malaysia since the country had neverexperience any major earthquake before. To monitor theearthquake events, the Malaysian Meteorological Department(MetMalaysia) has the system implemented a real-time andremote earthquake monitoring all over Malaysia since 2004. Thesystem helps in extracting the data for development of a possibleEarthquake Warning System (EWS). From data obtained fromthe system, this paper analyses relation between felt earthquakeevents and seismic parameters such as intensity, distance toepicentre, foundation and elevation of seismic stations. Theevents under study occurred in Sabah, Malaysia, from 2004 to2014. In particular, displacement (D), accelerated velocity (V)and acceleration (A) from 2004 to 2014 are analysed anddiscussed. The feasibility of modelling two outstanding feltearthquake events is assessed using Gaussian distribution withreasonable RMSE values.