Vassilios Tzaferis in Stern et al. (1993 v. 3:896), without citing specific archaeological evidence, reports that at Kursi the monastery, the church (also referred to as the basilica), and a small tower and chapel located approximately 200 m southeast of the basilica were destroyed by an earthquake and subsequently abandoned in the mid-eighth century CE. Eisenberg and Kowalewska (2025: 158) cite Tzaferis (1983) when stating that the large church and the surrounding monastery and village were "abandoned after the AD 749 earthquake." At Kursi Beach, Cohen and Artzy (2017) document that the western section of a building—possibly a synagogue—in Square B2 exhibited a sloping and westward tilt, which they interpret as "probably due to an earthquake".