Annotto Bay, situated in the parish of Saint Mary, was among the hardest hit towns in the magnitude 6.5 Mw Kingston earthquake in 1907, producing 1000 casualties in total.
Annotto Bay is a town in the parish of Saint Mary in Jamaica. Saint Mary is a parish located in the northeast section of Jamaica. The 1907 Kingston earthquake which shook the capital of the island of Jamaica with a magnitude of 6.5 on the moment magnitude scale on Monday January 14, at about 3:30 p.m. local time (20:36 UTC), is described by the United States Geological Survey as one of the world's deadliest earthquakes recorded in history. The greatest damage occurred at Kingston and at Buff Bay and Annotto Bay on the northern coast. Every building in Kingston was damaged by the earthquake and subsequent fires, which lasted for three hours before any efforts could be made to check them, culminated in the death of about 1,000 people, and caused approximately $30 million in material damage ($823.18 million in 2019). 
