- Mt. Ibu on the remote Indonesian island of Halmahera, erupts spectacularly, spewing a grey ash cloud 4 km into the sky as streaks of lightning flash around its crater.
- It is a Composite Volcano and the second most active Indonesian volcano after Mount Merapi.
- Mt. Ruang of Indonesia erupted recently forcing largescale displacement.
- Mt. Ibu’s eruption follows a series of such outbursts from different volcanoes in Indonesia, which sits on the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’ and has 127 active volcanoes.
Dig Deeper: Study the location of recent volcanic eruptions in the Pacific Ring of Fire on a map.
