Savage et al. (2001:439) describe a 26 m long stratigraphic section exposed by bulldozing on the western side of the tell. Within this exposure they identified an "earthquake slip fault" displacing a series of ash layers. The deformed sequence was subsequently sealed by Early Bronze IV deposits, indicating that the faulting occurred before or during occupation of the site in that period. Ferry et al. (2011:56) incorporated this observation into their regional archaeoseismic catalogue as Event X_A and correlated it with paleoseismic Event Y_T4 at Tell Saidiyeh. However, because the excavation report did not quantify either the amount or style of displacement, they concluded that the feature cannot be confidently interpreted as evidence for coseismic fault slip. They further noted that Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj lies approximately 1 km west of the main active Jordan Valley fault trace mapped in their study. Consequently, they interpreted the observed fault as a more likely example of off-fault or secondary deformation effects generated by strong earthquake shaking rather than direct rupture along the principal fault trace. Ferry et al. (2011) assigned the event an age of approximately 2300 BCE, whereas Raphael and Agnon (2018:774) placed the deformation within the broader interval of 2300–2000 BCE, corresponding to their chronological range for Early Bronze IV.