Warning! Mount Ibu Erupts Again Tonight (Saturday, August 23, 2025)

Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Saturday (8/23/2025) at 18:28 WIT. In the last week, Mount Ibu has erupted 29 times.

Reporting eruption information from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, the height of the ash column was observed to be around None meters above the peak (None meters above sea level).

Eruption visuals were not observed. The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 28 millimeters and a duration of 64 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 23, 2025, from 00:00-23:59 WIT showed 150 eruption/explosion earthquakes with amplitudes of 6-28 millimeters and earthquake durations of 35-98 seconds.

Then, 3 exhalation earthquakes with amplitudes of 5-10 millimeters and durations of 34-39 seconds, and 25 harmonic earthquakes with amplitudes of 2-28 millimeters and durations of 47-115 seconds.

PVMBG advises the community 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 5,755 volcanic eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java erupted the most (2,302 times) while Mount Ibu erupted 2,112 times.

(Read: BNPB Recorded 52 Natural Disasters in Mid-August 2023, Mostly Forest and Land Fires)