Mount Ibu Erupts Again This Afternoon (Friday, August 29, 2025)

Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Friday (8/29/2025) at 5:04 PM WIT. In the last week, Mount Ibu has erupted 30 times.

Quoting eruption information from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, the observed ash column height reached None meters above the peak or None meters above sea level.

Visual eruptions were 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). Seismic observations on August 29, 2025, at 00.00-23.59 WIT showed 112 eruption quakes with amplitudes of 8-28 millimeters and durations of 33-76 seconds.

Then, 2 exhalation quakes with amplitudes of 4-7 millimeters and durations of 40-42 seconds, and 19 harmonic quakes with amplitudes of 2-28 millimeters and durations of 21.82-114.19 seconds occurred.

PVMBG urges the public around Mount Ibu and visitors/tourists not to carry out activities within a radius of 2 kilometers and a sectoral expansion of 3.5 kilometers towards the opening of the crater in the northern part of the active Mount Ibu crater.

Throughout 2025, MAGMA Indonesia has recorded 5,881 volcanic eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java erupted the most (2,355 times), while Mount Ibu erupted 2,149 times.

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