Karcz and Kafri (1978: 244-245) reported that tilted and distorted walls and subsiding arches were encountered in the excavations of the Byzantine town of Antipatris (Aphek) which led Kochavi (1976) and Kochavi (personal communication to Karcz) to attribute the end and decay of the town to the earthquake of 419 AD. In his preliminary report on excavations Kochavi (1975) reported that very little was uncovered in the Early Byzantine Period and suggested that Byzantine Antipatris, as a city of any importance, probably came to its end around the beginning of the 5th century B.C.E. while Kochavi (1981) reports that the entire city of Antipatris was destroyed by an earthquake in 419 CE. Golan (2008) does not present any earthquake evidence but mentions that Kochavi thought that the city was destroyed by the Cyril Quake of 363 CE.

The fact that most of the coins dated to the second half of the fourth century CE suggests that the cardo may have been abandoned at the beginning of the Byzantine period, which seems to corroborate the excavators’ conclusions (Kochavi 1989) that assumed the city was destroyed in the year 363 CE.

Caution must be exercised in interpreting the numismatic data, however, as the ceramic fords included PRS 3 forms dating to the mid-5th-6th century (Golan 2008: fig. 5.5-6). More troubling is the apparent presence of `Mefjar ware' (i.e. Islamic Cream Ware), which dates no earlier than the late 7th century (see Walmsley 2001), in the `earthquake stratum' (Neidinger 1982: 167). This may indicate multiple destructions, but without more complete publication of the excavations, this is difficult to evaluate. It is, however, worth noting the presence of a bishop of Antipatris at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 (Dauphin 2000; Frankel and Kochavi 2000: 23, 31). This may be explained, as Fischer (1989: 1806) suggests, by assuming that the role of Antipatris `was filled with a great number of smaller settlements' like Khirbat Dhikrin (Zikrin) after the 418/419 earthquake, but it is equally likely that Antipatris was simply not abandoned in the early 5th century.

• Karcz and Kafri (1978: 244-245) reported that tilted and distorted walls and subsiding arches
  Figure 6.
  
  One of the subsided arches at Tel Afek (Antipatris) attributed to the 419 AD earthquake. Sagging of columns and arches occurs also in aseismically subsiding ground. In the present case, arch subsidence is accompanied by strongly tilted and distorted walls and joints.
  
  Karcz and Kafri (1978: 244-245)
  were encountered.

• Earthquake Archeological Effects chart
  Earthquake Archeological Effects (EAE)
  
  Rodríguez-Pascua et al (2013: 221-224)
  of Rodríguez-Pascua et al (2013: 221-224)

Effect	Location	Intensity
Arch Damage	Figure 6. One of the subsided arches at Tel Afek (Antipatris) attributed to the 419 AD earthquake. Sagging of columns and arches occurs also in aseismically subsiding ground. In the present case, arch subsidence is accompanied by strongly tilted and distorted walls and joints. Karcz and Kafri (1978: 244-245)	VI +
Tilted Walls		VI +
Folded Walls		VII +

Karcz, I. and U. Kafri (1978). "Evaluation of supposed archaeoseismic damage in Israel." Journal of Archaeological Science 5(3): 237-253.

Kochavi, M. and P. Beck (1976). Aphek-Antipatris, 1972-1973, Tel Aviv University, Institute of Archaeology.

Kochavi, M. (1975). "The First Two Seasons of Excavations at Aphek-Antipatris Preliminary Report." Tel Aviv 2(1): 17-42.

Kochavi, M. (1981). "The History and Archeology of Aphek-Antipatris: A Biblical City in the Sharon Plain." The Biblical Archaeologist 44(2): 75-86.

Kochavi, M. (1989). "Aphek-Antipatris: 5000 Years of History." Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad - in Hebrew

Golan (2008) Tel Afeq Hadashot Arkheologiyot Volume 120 Year 2008

Jones, I. W. N. (2021). "The southern Levantine earthquake of 418/419 AD and the archaeology of Byzantine Petra." Levant: 1-15.

Afek in the Sharon (Antipatris) at biblewalks.com