Warning! Mount Ibu Erupts Again This Afternoon (Sunday, November 9, 2025)

Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Sunday (9/11/2025) at 12:42 WIT. In the last week, Mount Ibu has erupted 3 times.

According to eruption information from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, the height of the observed ash column reached None meters above the peak or 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 56 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 November 9, 2025, from 00:00-23:59 WIT showed 62 eruption earthquakes with amplitudes of 20-28 millimeters and durations of 34-73 seconds.

Furthermore, 2 exhalation earthquakes with amplitudes of 4-14 millimeters and durations of 37-51 seconds, and 4 harmonic earthquakes with amplitudes of 4-28 millimeters and durations of 27-173 seconds occurred.

PVMBG urges the public around Mount Ibu and visitors/tourists not to conduct 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 6,914 volcano eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java had the most eruptions (2,777 times), while Mount Ibu erupted 2,475 times.

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