Mount Ibu Erupted Again This Morning (Thursday, 14 May 2026)
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Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Thursday (14/5/2026) at 05:48 WIT. Over the past week, Mount Ibu has erupted 24 times.
According to eruption data from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia app, the observed ash column reached 400 meters above the peak (1725 meters above sea level).
The grey, thick ash column drifted northwest. This eruption was recorded on seismographs with maximum 28 mm amplitude and 50 second duration.
(Read: Countries With Most Active Volcanoes Worldwide: Indonesia Ranks First)
Per MAGMA Indonesia activity reports, Mount Ibu status is at Level II (Alert). Seismic monitoring 00:00-23:59 WIT on 14 May 2026 recorded 120 eruption earthquakes (10-28 mm amplitude, 34-93 sec duration).
Additionally: 4 emission tremors (3-6 mm, 34-54 sec), 8 harmonic tremors (2-28 mm, 56-250 sec).
PVMBG urges local residents and visitors to avoid all activity within 2 km radius, plus an extended 3.5 km exclusion zone northward towards the active crater opening.
For 2026 up to this date, MAGMA Indonesia logged 1968 volcanic eruptions across Indonesia: Mount Semeru (East Java) recorded the most at 1007 eruptions, while Mount Ibu has erupted 699 times.
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