Warning! Mount Ibu Erupts Again This Morning (Friday, November 28, 2025)

Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Friday (11/28/2025) at 08:17 AM WIT. In the last week, Mount Ibu has erupted 21 times.

Based on 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 500 meters above the peak or 1,825 meters above sea level.

The ash column was observed to be gray with thick intensity towards the southeast. The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 10 millimeters and a duration of 66 seconds.

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According to the MAGMA Indonesia volcano activity report, the activity level of Mount Ibu is at Level II (Alert). Seismic observations on November 28, 2025, from 00:00-23:59 WIT showed 118 eruption earthquakes with amplitudes of 15-28 millimeters and earthquake durations of 30-85 seconds.

Then, 4 times of exhalation earthquakes with amplitudes of 4-10 millimeters and earthquake durations of 36-47 seconds, and 11 harmonic earthquakes with amplitudes of 2-28 millimeters and earthquake durations of 42-117 seconds.

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 7,090 volcanic eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java had the most eruptions (2,861 times), while Mount Ibu erupted 2,565 times.

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