Mount Ibu Erupted Again This Morning (Wednesday, 20 May 2026)
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Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Wednesday (20/5/2026) at 06:23 WIT. Over the past week, Mount Ibu has erupted 19 times.
According to eruption data from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, the observed ash column reached approximately 500 meters above the summit, or 1,825 meters above sea level.
The ash column was observed grey with thick intensity, drifting northeast. This eruption was recorded on seismographs with maximum amplitude 28 millimeters and lasted 53 seconds.
(Read: List of Provinces Hit by Floods and Landslides Early 2026)
Per MAGMA Indonesia volcanic activity reports, Mount Ibu is currently at Activity Level II (Alert). Seismic monitoring on 20 May 2026 00:00-23:59 WIT recorded 119 eruption earthquakes with amplitude 12-28 mm and duration 30-74 seconds.
Additionally: 1 exhalation earthquake (8 mm amplitude, 49 seconds duration), and 10 harmonic tremors (2-10 mm amplitude, 37-108 seconds duration) were detected.
PVMBG urges local residents, visitors and tourists to avoid all activity within a 2 km radius, plus an extended 3.5 km exclusion zone northward towards the active crater opening.
For 2026 to date, MAGMA Indonesia has logged 2,062 volcanic eruptions across Indonesia: Mount Semeru (East Java) recorded the highest eruptions at 1037 events, followed by Mount Ibu with 744 eruptions.
(Read: Damaged House Count from Sumatra Floods & Landslides (16 December 2025))
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