Warning! Mount Ibu Erupted Again This Afternoon (Tuesday, 19 May 2026)
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Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Tuesday (19/5/2026) at 16:36 WIT. Over the past week, Mount Ibu has erupted 14 times.
According to eruption data from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia app, observed ash column height reached approx 400m above the summit (1,725m above sea level).
The thick grey ash column drifted northeast. This eruption registered on seismographs with maximum amplitude 28mm, duration 47 seconds.
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Per MAGMA Indonesia volcano activity reports, Mount Ibu remains at Activity Level II (Alert). Seismic monitoring on 19 May 2026 (00:00-23:59 WIT) recorded 128 eruption earthquakes (amplitude 10-28mm, duration 31-79 sec).
Additionally: 3 blast earthquakes (4-8mm, 44-46 sec), 11 harmonic tremor events (2-28mm, 38-142 sec).
PVMBG urges local residents, visitors and tourists not to operate within 2km of the mountain, plus an extended 3.5km exclusion zone north towards the active crater opening.
For 2026 to date, MAGMA Indonesia logged 2,054 volcanic eruptions nationwide. Mount Semeru (East Java) recorded the most at 1,035 eruptions; Mount Ibu recorded 739 eruptions.
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