Alert! Mount Ibu Erupted Again This Afternoon (Monday, 21 September 2026)
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Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Monday (21/9/2026) at 16:53 WIT. Over the past week, Mount Ibu has erupted 4 times.
According to eruption information from the Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, the eruption visual was not observed. Mount Ibu's eruption was still ongoing when this report was published.
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Per MAGMA Indonesia volcanic activity reports, Mount Ibu activity status is set at Level II (Alert). Seismic monitoring on 21 September 2026, 00:00-23:59 WIT recorded 78 eruption earthquakes with 15-28 mm amplitude and 36-92 seconds duration.
Additionally, 2 collapse earthquakes with 2 mm amplitude and 29-32 seconds duration, plus 10 harmonic tremors with 3-28 mm amplitude and 53-181 seconds duration were detected.
PVMBG urges local residents, visitors and tourists to avoid entering the 2 km radius exclusion zone, as well as the extended 3.5 km sectoral zone towards the northern opening of Mount Ibu's active crater.
Throughout 2026, MAGMA Indonesia logged 4,740 volcanic eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru (East Java) recorded the highest eruptions at 1,840 events, while Mount Ibu erupted 1,558 times.
(Read: Statistics: Number of Houses Submerged by Natural Disasters in Indonesia 2014)
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