Mare (1984) observed a destruction layer in a triapsidal basilica on the north Tall in Area A. He reports that “on the preserved surface of the apse" and in much of the area on both sides of the apse was "a layer of plaster that, due to the Umayyad pottery sherds found there," suggests that the plaster surfaces were laid "subsequent to the time of the Umayyad conquest in A.D. 636” and the church was destroyed afterwards. He adds that “violent earthquake activity" may have also been responsible for "displacing of ashlar blocks” and that this may suggest an 8th century date for the church’s destruction, possibly "the earthquake of A.D. 746 [JW: actually 749] which caused great destruction at nearby Tiberias and Jerash.” Vila in Lichtenberger and Raja (2025: 99) likewise concluded that the triapsidal basilica on the north Tall in Area A was destroyed by a mid-8th-century CE earthquake, after which he contends it was used for domestic and light industrial purposes during the Early Abbasid period.

Vila in Lichtenberger and Raja (2025) also reported that the church on the south Tall in Area D appears to have been destroyed by the same earthquake. Archaeoseismic evidence uncovered in excavations of this church included an oriented fall of Corinthian columns and depressions in the floor of the nave where fallen ashlars impacted. Finally, Vila in Lichtenberger and Raja (2025) also noted mid-8th-century CE earthquake evidence in the basilica of Area E, including an oriented column fall, “indentations in the floor surfaces from ashlars that fell from a significant height,” and several “whole objects, such as a green glazed pot and other pottery and metal objects which clearly belong to the eighth century and were crushed under falling debris.”