The Great Port Royal and Kingston earthquake took place

[malaise]

334 years ago on June 7 at 11.43am.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1692_Jamaica_earthquake

The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica, on 7 June. A stopped pocket watch found in the harbour during a 1959 excavation[2][3][4] indicated that it occurred around 11:43 AM local time.[5]

Known as the "storehouse and treasury of the West Indies" and as the "wickedest city in the world",[2] Port Royal was, at the time, a key city in colonial Jamaica and one of the busiest and wealthiest ports in the Americas, as well as a common home port for many of the privateers and pirates operating on the Caribbean Sea.

The 1692 earthquake caused most of the city to sink below sea level. About 2,000 people died as a result of the earthquake and the following tsunami, and another 3,000 people died in the following days due to injuries and disease.[5]

[OLDMDDEM]

1. Thank you for this. I enjoy history now that I'm in my later years.

[malaise]

2. YW

[malaise]

5. More

https://lost-in-history.com/jamaicas-port-royal-the-wickedest-place-on-earth-sank-into-the-sea-in-1692/

[OLDMDDEM]

6. Wow. Thank you so much.

[Goonch]

3. A depiction of the earthquake that destroyed much of Port Royal in 1692, by Jan Luyken and Pieter van der Aa

[malaise]

4. The Port Royal Museum has some fascinating stuff

Thanks for this

[Judi Lynn]

9. "What God hath wrought!" That's an inspired bit of artwork. The artist clearly hoped to explain it.

I almost think it's better than any photograph could be, Goonch. It reveals a great deal about hell on earth, as it can manifest itself.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Can't believe I hadn't even heard of this. It was more than a nightmare. Unbelievable.

You'd think that information would have been spread throughout everywhere.

I won't be able to forget it, and hope to learn more as I go.

Shocking.

Any survivors had to be so deeply traumatized.

Thanks for shining a light through our ignorance, malaise. This is too important not to know!

[malaise]

8. YW

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[Judi Lynn]

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[malaise]

13. Thanks sis

[Goonch]

10. ;-{) The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica, (another rendition)

[malaise]

11. Excellent