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 multiple casualties.
The greatest damage occurred at Kingston and at Buff Bay and Annotto Bay on the northern coast. Annotto Bay is a town in the parish of Saint Mary in Jamaica. 6.5 Mw 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). 
