Warning! Mount Ibu Erupts Again This Afternoon (Sunday, October 19, 2025)

Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Sunday (19/10/2025) at 3:37 PM WIT. In the last week, Mount Ibu has erupted 38 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 500 meters above the peak or 1,825 meters above sea level.

The ash column was observed to be gray with thick intensity towards the northwest. The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 28 millimeters and a duration of 54 seconds.

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According to the MAGMA Indonesia volcano activity report, Mount Ibu's activity level is at Level II (Alert). Seismic observations on October 19, 2025, from 00:00-23:59 WIT showed 88 eruption/explosion earthquakes with amplitudes of 15-28 millimeters and durations of 32-76 seconds.

Additionally, 3 exhalation earthquakes with amplitudes of 4-20 millimeters and durations of 33-43 seconds, and 11 harmonic tremors with amplitudes of 2-20 millimeters and durations of 21-85 seconds occurred.

PVMBG urges communities around Mount Ibu and visitors/tourists not to engage in activities within a radius of 2.0 kilometers 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 6,706 volcanic eruptions/explosions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java had the most eruptions (2,637 times), while Mount Ibu erupted 2,410 times.

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