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# Mount Athos Hit With 4.0 Earthquake
- URL: https://uoj.news/news/85015-mount-athos-hit-with-40-earthquake/
- Published: 2025-08-13T14:25:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-25T16:10:13.000Z
- Description: Professor Efthymios Lekkas, president of the Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization, says that this “strange phenomenon” has been going on for over a year now.
- Author: News
- Tags: #Category: News, Athos

**KARYES —** An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 on the Richter scale struck Mount Athos shortly before 11:30 PM on Tuesday, August 13, 2025.

According to the revised solution from the Geodynamic Institute, the epicenter of the earthquake is estimated to be 10 kilometers west-northwest of Karyes.

The focal depth of the earthquake is estimated at 13.1 kilometers.

There has been an unusual amount of seismic activity effecting Mount Athos recently.

As the UOJ [previously reported](https://uoj.news/news/84480-simonopetra-damaged-in-athos-earthquake/), Professor Efthymios Lekkas, president of the Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization, says that this “strange phenomenon” has been going on for over a year now.

The monks have been warned that several more earthquakes will probably strike the Holy Mountain in the months to come.