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Ar Jamaica's Port Royal receives UNESCO recognition 333 years after earthquake swallowed two-thirds of the Caribbean's most notorious city
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, August 27, 2025 - At 11:43 a.m. on June 7, 1692, the earth beneath Port Royal shuddered, cracked, and opened its jaws. In less than three minutes, two-thirds of what contemporaries called "the wickedest city on earth" vanished beneath Kingston Harbor's blue waters.
