Mount Ibu Malut Eruption Lontarkan Abu As High As 1.2 Kilometers

The Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) reported an eruption that ejected volcanic ash as high as 1.2 kilometers from the crater of Mount Ibu in North Maluku.

Mount Ibu Observation Post officer, Efrita Lusy Andriany Saragih, said the eruption occurred tonight at 19.20 WIT and the ash column was observed to be gray with thick intensity leaning towards the northeast.

"The light was observed with a height of about 500 meters," he said in a report quoted by ANTARA, Friday, November 3.

Effrita said the eruption was recorded on a seismogram with a maximum amplitude of 28 millimeters and a duration of approximately 1 minute 29 seconds.

PVMBG stated that the volcanic disaster level of Mount Ibu is currently still level II or alert.

The people around the volcano should not move within a radius of 2.0 kilometers and the sectoral expansion is 3.5 kilometers to the crater opening in the northern part of the active crater of Mount Ibu.

"If there is ash rain, people who are active outside the home are advised to use a nose, mouth (mask) and eyes (glasses)," said Efrita.

Mount Ibu is a volcano with a volcano strato type which has a height of 1,325 meters above sea level, located northwest of Halmahera Island, North Maluku.

The top of the mountain is a volcanic crater. The crater center is one kilometer wide and 400 meters deep, while the outer part is 1.2 kilometers wide.

From January 1, 2023 to November 3, 2023, Mount Ibu was recorded to have experienced an eruption with 52 eruptions recorded.