PVMBG Ensures Video Of Mount Tangkuban Eruption Of Hoax Boats

The visual condition of the crater of Mount Tangkuban Parahu, which is currently still Level I or normal in West Bandung Regency, West Java, Friday, (8/12/2023). BETWEEN/HO-PVMBG/am.

JAKARTA - The Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) ensures that viral videos circulating through social media and groupchatterkaiteruption of Mount Tangkuban Parahu are untrue or hoaxes.

Head of PVMBG, Hendra Gunawan said the video circulating was not a video showing the current volcanic activity of Mount Tangkuban Parahu.

"The video circulating is an eruption video that occurred on July 26, 2019 at 15:48 WIB," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Saturday, January 13.

The appearance of the hoax video caused panic among the people around Mount Tangkuban Parahu or the community who wanted to visit the Mount Tangkuban Boat Nature Tourism Park, as well as tourist attractions close to the volcano.

PVMBG urges the public and tourists to be calm, carry out activities as usual and not be provoked by various issues about the eruption of Mount Tangkuban Boat.

Perkembangan aktivitas Gunung Tangkuban Parahu bisa dilihat melalui aplikasi Magma Indonesia melalui laman https://magma.esdm.go.id atau diunduh pada Google Playstore.

Mount Tangkuban Parahu is an active volcano located in West Bandung Regency and Subang Regency, West Java Province.

The volcano has nine craters with two main craters in the summit area, namely the Queen Crater and the Upas Crater.

The eruption of Mount Tangkuban Parahu is generally a phreatic eruption from the Queen Crater. Currently, the crater area and its surroundings have become both domestic and foreign tourist destinations.

Based on PVMBG records, Mount Tangkuban Boat experienced its last eruption on July 26, 2019. The eruption activity started with a phreatic eruption from the Queen Crater.

Increasing activity was marked by a significant eruption, since August 2, 2019 at 08.00 WIB, the activity level of Mount Tangkuban Parahu has been increased to level II or alert.

After undergoing an eruption phase for almost three months, volcanic activity decreased significantly, so that its activity level was lowered again to normal on October 21, 2019, at 09:00 WIB.

The current level of activity is still at a normal status characterized by smoke gusts from the Queen Crater with a thin to thick intensity, with a height of 5 to 110 meters above the bottom of the crater.

During 2023 to January 11, 2024, seismic recordings showed earthquake gusts of less than five earthquakes per day and volcanic earthquakes associated with magma supply were rarely recorded and no earthquake eruptions were recorded.