Warning! Mount Ibu Erupts Again This Afternoon (Saturday, August 23, 2025)

Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Saturday (8/23/2025) at 14:07 WIT. In the last week, Mount Ibu has erupted 27 times.

Citing eruption information from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, the height of the ash column observed reached None meters above the peak (None meters above sea level).

Visual eruption was not observed. The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 28 millimeters and a duration of 62 seconds.

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According to MAGMA Indonesia''s volcano activity report, Mount Ibu''s activity level is at Level II (Alert). Seismic observations on August 23, 2025, from 00:00-23:59 WIT showed 150 eruption/explosion earthquakes with amplitudes of 6-28 millimeters and durations of 35-98 seconds.

Followed by 3 exhalation earthquakes with amplitudes of 5-10 millimeters and durations of 34-39 seconds, and 25 harmonic tremors with amplitudes of 2-28 millimeters and durations of 47-115 seconds.

PVMBG urges the public around Mount Ibu and visitors/tourists not to engage in activities within a 2-kilometer radius and a sectoral expansion of 3.5 kilometers towards the crater opening in the northern part of Mount Ibu''s active crater.

Throughout 2025, MAGMA Indonesia has recorded 5,751 volcanic eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java had the most eruptions (2,301 times), while Mount Ibu erupted 2,110 times.

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