An earthquake ravages the Caribbean island of…
February 1843 CE
The 1843 Guadeloupe earthquake occurs at 10:37 with an estimated magnitude (scale unspecified) of 8.5, making it the strongest recorded earthquake in the Caribbean and a maximum perceived intensity of shaking of IX on the Mercalli intensity scale.
The earthquake is felt widely throughout the Caribbean and as far away as New York.
On Guadeloupe, Pointe-à-Pitre suffers severe damage with a maximum of eight hundred to nine hundred houses being destroyed of the twelve hundred and twenty-two that existed before the earthquake.
The earthquake is quickly followed by fires that cause further destruction.
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