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FLASHBACK: 1907 great earthquake

Published:Thursday | January 14, 2016 | 1:08 PM
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File Sections of the United Methodist Church in Gordon Town, St Andrew, reduced to rubble during the 1907 earthquake.
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Contributed Tower Street was not spared the wrath of the 1907 earthquake. Photo: Courtesy of the National Library of Jamaica
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A resident looks at a house on Harbour Street, in downtown Kingston which was detroyed by the 1907 earthquake.
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File The remains of the Croton Hotel which was destroyed by the 1907 earthquake.
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Last Thursday marked the 109th anniversary of the Great Kingston Quake of 1907. It is estimated that of the 48,000 people living in Kingston at the time, more than 1,000 died, mostly in the fires

following the shocks. Some 9,000 people were left homeless throughout the island. Damage (building) for that event was estimated at £2 million.

The Sunday Gleaner dipped into its archives and here is

a flashback of the coverage of that defining event.