Gazette Issue No. 9, 1st March 1760 CE
... From Marseilles, February 22, 1760.
From letters from Constantinople dated the beginning of last month, we learn
that
a great earthquake has been experienced in the Levant. It not only overthrew the City of Safet as was first reported;
but also Antioch, Damascus, Tiberias and Jaffa. Tripoli
in Syria, Seyde [Sidon], and Saint-Jean d'Acre were badly damaged.
Several houses were knocked down there,
and others have sunk several feet.
Gazette Issue No. 10, 8 March 1760 CE
... From Paris, 8 March 1760.
...Letters arrived recently from various places of
Syria
confirming the news of the repeated earthquakes which have destroyed most of the towns of this region.
The two main tremors were felt last October 30, at three-quarters past three in the morning,
and November 25, at a quarter past seven at night. The others were so numerous that they cannot be counted.
Tripoli in Syria is no more than a heap of ruins, as are Saphet, Napouloufe (Nablus?), Damascus, several other cities,
and a multitude of Towns and Villages. It has been added, near Baalbek, in the earth, a
slit was observed several fathoms wide and twenty leagues long. Those who escaped the ruin of their homes
are reduced to living in the countryside in tents. They have to defend themselves from ferocious beasts, which inhabit the
mountains and uncultivated places with which this country is surrounded. For furcrok of misfortunes [On top of this ?], a
plague is ravaging the City of Acre.
