Warning! Mount Ili Lewotolok Erupts Again This Morning (Thursday, August 7, 2025)

Mount Ili Lewotolok in East Nusa Tenggara erupted again on Thursday (8/7/2025) at 09:54 AM WITA. In the last week, Mount Ili Lewotolok has erupted 10 times.

Citing eruption information from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, the height of the ash column was observed to reach None meters above the peak (None meters above sea level).

No visual eruption was observed. The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 36.2 millimeters and a duration of 51 seconds.

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According to MAGMA Indonesia's volcano activity report, the activity level of Mount Ili Lewotolok is at Level III (Alert). Seismicity observations on August 7, 2025, from 00:00-06:00 WITA, showed 45 eruption/explosion earthquakes with amplitudes of 14.6-32.6 millimeters and a duration of 28 seconds.

Furthermore, 30 times of exhalation earthquakes with amplitudes of 2.4-6.5 millimeters and durations of 34-37 seconds, and 1 distant tectonic earthquake with an amplitude of 23.6 millimeters s-p 10.9 seconds and a duration of 48 seconds.

PVMBG urges the public around Mount Ili Lewotolok, as well as visitors/climbers/tourists, not to enter or conduct activities within a 3-kilometer radius from the center of Mount Ili Lewotolok's activity, and to be aware of potential hazards from lava falls/landslides and pyroclastic clouds from the South and Southeast sectors, West sector, and Northeast sector of Mount Ili Lewotolok.

Throughout 2025, MAGMA Indonesia has recorded 5,496 volcanic eruptions/explosions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java has erupted the most (2,202 times), while Mount Ili Lewotolok has erupted 215 times.

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