Alert! Mount Ibu Erupted Again This Afternoon (Wednesday, 27 May 2026)
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Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Wednesday (27/5/2026) at 14:20 WIT. Over the past week, Mount Ibu has erupted 16 times.
According to eruption data from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, the eruption was not visually observed. It was registered on seismographs with 28 mm maximum amplitude and 49 second duration.
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Per MAGMA Indonesia volcanic activity reports, Mount Ibu is set at Activity Level II (Alert). Seismic monitoring on 27 May 2026 00:00-23:59 WIT recorded 135 eruption earthquakes (10-28 mm amplitude, 30-89 second duration).
Additionally: 1 emission earthquake (4 mm amplitude, 51 second duration) and 10 harmonic tremors (2-28 mm amplitude, 55-124 second duration).
PVMBG urges local residents, visitors and tourists to avoid activity within 2 km radius, plus an extended 3.5 km sector zone northwards of Mount Ibu's active crater opening.
During 2026, MAGMA Indonesia logged 2,186 volcanic eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru (East Java) recorded the most eruptions (1,100 events), while Mount Ibu recorded 794 eruptions.
(Read: 4.2 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Fox Aleutian Islands)
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