Mount Ibu Erupts Again Tonight (Tuesday, November 18, 2025)

Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Tuesday (November 18, 2025) at 00.07 WIT. In the last week, Mount Ibu has erupted 2 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 was observed to reach None meters above the peak (None meters above sea level).

Visual eruptions were not observed. The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 15 millimeters and a duration of 45 seconds.

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According to MAGMA Indonesia's volcano activity report, the activity level of Mount Ibu is at Level II (Alert). Seismicity observations on November 18, 2025, from 00.00-23.59 WIT showed 120 eruption quakes with an amplitude of 15-28 millimeters and a duration of 33-73 seconds.

Additionally, there were 4 exhalation quakes with an amplitude of 6-10 millimeters and a duration of 39-47 seconds, and 9 harmonic tremors with an amplitude of 2-10 millimeters and a duration of 31-162 seconds.

PVMBG urges the public around Mount Ibu and visitors/tourists not to engage in activities within a radius of 2 kilometers 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 6,977 volcanic eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java erupted the most (2,798 times), while Mount Ibu erupted 2,515 times.

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