Mount Ibu Erupts Again Tonight (Wednesday, July 30, 2025)

Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Wednesday (7/30/2025) at 8:05 PM WIT (Eastern Indonesia Time). In the last week, Mount Ibu has erupted 18 times.

According to eruption information from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, the height of the ash column observed reached 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 28 millimeters and a duration of 62 seconds.

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According to the MAGMA Indonesia volcano activity report, Mount Ibu's activity level is at Level II (Alert). Seismic observations on July 30, 2025, from 00:00-23:59 WIT showed 135 eruption/explosive earthquakes with amplitudes of 10-28 millimeters and durations of 24-65 seconds.

Subsequently, 1 exhalation earthquake with an amplitude of 7 millimeters and a duration of 31 seconds, and 22 harmonic tremors with amplitudes of 3-28 millimeters and durations of 26-255 seconds occurred.

PVMBG urges the public around Mount Ibu and visitors/tourists not to engage in activities within a 2-kilometer radius and a sectoral expansion of 3.5 kilometers towards the crater opening in the northern part of Mount Ibu's active crater.

Throughout 2025, MAGMA Indonesia has recorded 5,386 volcano eruptions/explosions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java had the most eruptions (2,163 times) while Mount Ibu erupted 1,993 times.

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