Alert! Mount Ibu Erupted Again Tonight (Tuesday, 5 May 2026)
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Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Tuesday (5/5/2026) at 22:22 WIT. Over the past week, Mount Ibu has erupted 11 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 600 meters above the crater peak, or 1925 meters above sea level.
The grey, thick ash column drifted towards the southeast. This eruption was recorded on seismographs with maximum amplitude 28 mm and duration 58 seconds.
(Read: Casualty Distribution from Floods & Landslides in Aceh (9 December 2025))
Per MAGMA Indonesia activity reports, Mount Ibu remains at Activity Level II (Alert). Seismic monitoring on 5 May 2026 00:00-23:59 WIT recorded 112 eruption earthquakes (15-28 mm amplitude, 35-70 sec duration), 10 harmonic tremors (2-28 mm, 46-205 sec), and 116 low-frequency earthquakes (2-10 mm, 17-29 sec).
PVMBG warns local residents and visitors: no activities are allowed within 2 km radius, plus an extended 3.5 km exclusion zone northwards towards the active crater opening.
For 2026 so far, MAGMA Indonesia logged 1,810 volcanic eruptions nationwide. Mount Semeru (East Java) recorded the most eruptions at 936 events, while Mount Ibu recorded 646 eruptions.
(Read: Floods Dominated Disaster Events in Indonesia Q1 2026)
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