Warning! Mount Ibu Erupts Again This Afternoon (Wednesday, November 19, 2025)

Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Wednesday (19/11/2025) at 2:21 PM WIT. In the last week, Mount Ibu has erupted 10 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 be around 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 28 millimeters and a duration of 42 seconds.

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According to MAGMA Indonesia's volcano activity report, Mount Ibu's activity level is at Level II (Alert). Seismic observations on November 19, 2025, from 00:00-23:59 WIT showed 74 eruption tremors with amplitudes of 15-28 millimeters and tremor durations of 36-71 seconds.

Additionally, there were 3 exhalation tremors with amplitudes of 8-10 millimeters and tremor durations of 33-47 seconds, and 7 harmonic tremors with amplitudes of 2-15 millimeters and tremor durations of 51-111 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 6,992 volcano eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java had the most eruptions (2,805 times) while Mount Ibu erupted 2,523 times.

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