Warning! Mount Dukono Erupts Again This Afternoon (Sunday, July 27, 2025)

Mount Dukono in North Maluku erupted again on Sunday (7/27/2025) at 11:19 WIT. In the last week, Mount Dukono has erupted 14 times.

Based on eruption information from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, the height of the observed ash column reached 3,000 meters above the peak or 4,087 meters above sea level.

The ash column was observed to be white to gray with thick intensity towards the north. The eruption of Mount Dukono was still ongoing when this report was made.

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According to the MAGMA Indonesia volcano activity report, Mount Dukono's activity level is at Level II (Alert). Seismicity observations on July 27, 2025, from 00:00-23:59 WIT showed 185 times of eruption/emission earthquakes with amplitudes of 6-34 millimeters and durations of 33.17-191.63 seconds.

Furthermore, 1 felt earthquake, scale II MMI with an amplitude of 34 millimeters (S-P not observed) and a duration of 244.54 seconds, as well as 1 distant tectonic earthquake with an amplitude of 34 millimeters (S-P not observed) and a duration of 141.55 seconds, occurred.

PVMBG urges the community around Mount Dukono and visitors/tourists not to carry out activities, climb, or approach the Malupang Warirang Crater within a 4-kilometer radius.

Throughout 2025, MAGMA Indonesia has recorded 5,329 volcanic eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java had the most eruptions (2,144 times) while Mount Dukono erupted 446 times.

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