The movement of three large plates makes earthquakes frequent in Indonesia. The earthquake caused a lot of damage and casualties. One of the causes of the high risk of earthquake disasters is the large population. Java Island is the island that has the largest population in Indonesia. Besides, earthquakes often occur in Java and its surroundings, which cause a very high risk of an earthquake. A further disaster that occurs after an earthquake is a tsunami if the earthquake originates from the ocean (earthquake originates from subduction). Therefore, this study examines the characteristics and parameters of earthquakes originating from subduction around Java Island, consisting of 10 zones (5 of the megathrust zone and 5 of the benioff zone). The method used to determine these parameters is the Guternberg-Richter's law method and the maximum likely hood/characteristic method. The results of these two methods have differences due to earthquake uncertainty factors. In the application of earthquake hazard analysis, these two methods are used for calculations by increasing the percentage of use in the characteristic method. The geological evidence shows that characteristic earthquakes occur more frequently than earthquakes predicted from the Gutenberg-Richter model. It is also necessary to know the subduction zone dip angle for modeling 3D earthquake sources. Each subduction zone around Java Island is divided into five areas. The megathrust zone is 50 km in-depth, while the benioff zone is more profound than the megathrust zone. The result shows that the most considerable dip value is in the Java 3 megathrust zone with 14,667 o and the Java 2 benioff zone with 53,667 o .