Warning! Mount Ibu Erupts Again Tonight (Monday, October 6, 2025)

Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Monday (October 6, 2025) at 11:21 PM WIT. In the last week, Mount Ibu has erupted 3 times.

Reporting eruption information from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, the observed ash column height reached None meters above the peak or None meters above sea level.

Visual eruption was not observed. The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 20 millimeters and a duration of 46 seconds.

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According to MAGMA Indonesia's volcanic activity report, Mount Ibu's activity level is at Level II (Alert). Seismicity observations on October 6, 2025, from 00:00-23:59 WIT showed 64 eruption earthquakes with amplitudes of 10-28 millimeters and durations of 30-117 seconds.

Subsequently, 1 exhalation earthquake with an amplitude of 6 millimeters and a duration of 44 seconds, and 70 harmonic earthquakes with amplitudes of 2-10 millimeters and durations of 10-147 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 6,558 volcanic eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java erupted the most (2,569 times), while Mount Ibu erupted 2,357 times.

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