The 1759 CE Safed and Baalbek Quakes are well documented by contemporary sources such as an anonymous letter from the French consul in Sidon (Lebanon), a letter written by Boutros Jalfaq, the Archbishop of Sidon, news reports, and other documents. The 25 November 1759 CE Baalbek earthquake appears to have broken at least 110 km of the nearby Serghaya fault, led to collapses and deaths in Baalbek and Ras-Baalbek, and caused significant damage to the monuments of Baalbek — such as causing three columns of the peristyle of the Great Temple (Temple of Jupiter) to fall and the soffit of the door of the lesser temple to drop.