Warning! Mount Ibu Erupts Again This Afternoon (Sunday, August 10, 2025)

Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Sunday (10/8/2025) at 3:11 PM WIT. In the last week, Mount Ibu has erupted 33 times.

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

The visual eruption was not observed. The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 28 millimeters and a duration of 59 seconds.

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According to the MAGMA Indonesia volcano activity report, Mount Ibu's activity level is at Level II (Alert). Seismicity observations on August 10, 2025, from 00:00-23:59 WIT showed 137 eruption/explosion earthquakes with amplitudes of 11-28 millimeters and earthquake durations of 29-59 seconds.

Additionally, there were 49 harmonic earthquakes with amplitudes of 2-28 millimeters and durations of 33-134 seconds, and 131 low-frequency earthquakes with amplitudes of 2-9 millimeters and durations of 17-28 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 5,544 volcano eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java had the most eruptions (2,214 times) while Mount Ibu erupted 2,049 times.

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