Erickson-Gini (personal correspondence, 2021) reported that Mizpe Shivta experienced seismic damage in the 7th century CE, sometime after 620 CE. Yaacov Baumgarten in Stern et al. (1993 v. 3) similarly noted that, “judging from the extent of the destruction and debris, the site may have been struck by an earthquake.” More recently, Lehnig et al. (2025a:11–15) identified retaining walls, double arches, and the use of double-shell masonry, observing that these features “indicate that buildings in the settlement were designed to withstand earthquakes, and that efforts were made to stabilize individual structures, possibly following an earlier seismic event.” They suggest that this earlier earthquake preceded the better-documented 8th–9th century seismic event.