Mount Ibu Erupted Again This Afternoon (Wednesday, 17 June 2026)
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Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Wednesday (17/6/2026) at 13:59 WIT. Over the past week, Mount Ibu has erupted 19 times.
According to eruption data from the Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, no visual eruption was observed. This eruption was recorded on seismographs with maximum amplitude 21 mm and duration of 46 seconds.
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Per MAGMA Indonesia volcanic activity reports, Mount Ibu is currently at Activity Level II (Alert). Seismic monitoring on 17 June 2026, 00:00-23:59 WIT recorded 77 eruption earthquakes with amplitude 15-28 mm and duration 36-199 seconds.
Additionally, 1 emission earthquake (amplitude 6 mm, 41 seconds duration) and 28 harmonic tremors (amplitude 2-10 mm, 27-154 seconds duration) were detected.
PVMBG warns local residents, visitors and tourists not to enter the 2 km exclusion zone, and the extended 3.5 km sectoral zone towards the northern crater opening of the active Mount Ibu crater.
For 2026, MAGMA Indonesia has recorded 2,734 volcanic eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru (East Java) recorded the highest count at 1,278 eruptions, followed by Mount Ibu with 940 eruptions.
(Read: Hundreds of Natural Disasters Recorded by Early April 2024, Floods Most Common)
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