Mount Ibu Erupted Again This Afternoon (Friday, 23 October 2026)

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Irfan Fadhlurrahman 23/10/2026 14:59 WIB
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Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Friday (23/10/2026) at 17:35 WIT. Over the past week, Mount Ibu has erupted 39 times.

According to eruption data from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, the eruption was not visually observed. It was recorded on seismographs with maximum amplitude 28 mm and duration 46 seconds.

(Read: Natural Disaster Fatality Count in Indonesia Surged in 2024)

Per MAGMA Indonesia volcanic activity reports, Mount Ibu is currently at Activity Level II (Alert). Seismic monitoring on 23 October 2026 00:00-23:59 WIT recorded 98 eruption earthquakes (15-28 mm amplitude, 34-113 sec duration), 2 landslide earthquakes, 1 degassing earthquake.

PVMBG urges local residents and tourists to avoid activities within 2 km radius, plus an extended 3.5 km exclusion zone northward of the active crater opening.

Throughout 2026, MAGMA Indonesia logged 5,253 volcanic eruptions nationwide. Mount Semeru (East Java) recorded the most eruptions (2,033 events), followed by Mount Ibu with 1,791 eruptions.

(Read: Data on Number of Houses Flooded Due to Natural Disasters in Indonesia 2014-2014)

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