Mount Ibu Erupts Again This Afternoon (Saturday, August 2, 2025)

Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Saturday (2/8/2025) at 4:09 PM WIT. In the last week, Mount Ibu has erupted 35 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 eruption's visual was not observed. The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 28 millimeters and a duration of 67 seconds.

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According to the MAGMA Indonesia volcano activity report, the activity level of Mount Ibu is at Level II (Alert). Seismicity observations on August 2, 2025, from 00:00-23:59 WIT showed 137 eruption earthquakes with amplitudes of 3-28 millimeters and durations of 30-90 seconds.

Additionally, there were 6 exhalation earthquakes with amplitudes of 3-5 millimeters and durations of 30-40 seconds, and 16 harmonic earthquakes with amplitudes of 3-28 millimeters and durations of 34-178 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 5,429 volcanic eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java had the most eruptions (2,178 times) while Mount Ibu erupted 2,010 times.

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