Earthquake — Jamaica: Kingston

When

14 Jan 1907

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.2

Where

Jamaica

Coordinates

18.67° N, 76.24° W

Deaths

1000

Damage musd

30

Depth km

15

Earthquake in Jamaica

The 1907 Kingston earthquake which shook the capital of the island of Jamaica with a magnitude of 6.2 on the moment magnitude scale on Monday 14 January, at about 3:30 p.m. local time, is described by the United States Geological Survey as one of the world's deadliest earthquakes recorded in history.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Kingston (Jamaica) un fuerte terremoto de 6,2 y un tsunami dejan más de 1000 muertos y daños materiales”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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