Abu Clouds As High As 2 Kilometers Appear When Mount Ibu Eruption Today

Photo: Doc. Antara

JAKARTA - Volcanic ash clouds as high as approximately two kilometers emerged due to the eruption activity that occurred on Mount Ibu on Halmahera Island, North Maluku.

"The eruption occurred on Saturday night, at 20.12 WIT," said Mount Ibu Observation Post Officer Ridwan Djalil in his report in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Saturday, June 15.

Ridwan explained that the ash clouds were gray to black with thick intensity leading to the southwest.

The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 28 millimeters and a duration of 87 seconds.

The Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) recorded that the intensity of shallow volcanic earthquakes is still high with hundreds of times every day.

On June 14, 2024, Mount Ibu experienced two earthquake eruptions, 56 earthquake gusts, 21 harmonic earthquakes, 536 shallow volcanic earthquakes, 20 deep volcanic earthquakes, and 20 distant tectonic earthquakes.

PVMBG recommends that people do not move within a four-kilometer radius and a sectoral expansion seven kilometers to the crater opening in the northern part of the active crater of Mount Ibu.

Since May 16, 2024 until today, Mount Ibu is still on alert or level IV because volcanic and seismic activity is still relatively high.