Talk:1692 Jamaica earthquake

Fault
The description of the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone is contained solely within the island of Hispaniola and therefore too far away to affect Jamaica. Either the attribution of fault is wrong, or the description of EP Garden fault appears to be too narrow. Can someone help? Student7 (talk) 15:29, 27 February 2010 (UTC)


 * OK, now I think I understand the problem. The fault zone is described from east to west, which seems back to front to me, but I'm not sure why. As it says in the article, it starts in Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic near the Enriquillo Lake, passing through Haiti, then through the Caribbean Sea finishing at the Plantain Garden River area in Jamaica. Mikenorton (talk) 15:44, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

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The watch
Even though the linked source says the watch was found in 1969, there is an article in this newspaper http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=99506 (page 2) dated from 1960 that already reports this discovery. 109.232.29.145 (talk) 10:19, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I suspect that the 1969 date is a typo in the cited source as it clearly was in 1959, found during the "shakedown" archaeological expedition of the Sea Diver II see Edwin A. Link 1904­-1981 by Martha Clark Revised by Jeanne Eichelberger. I'm still looking for a good source to confirm all this - currently I have a set of sources that together support this conclusion, but it would be a lot easier to use a single source. Thanks for pointing this out. Mikenorton (talk) 14:30, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
 * In the end I had to use two sources, but together they do the job of supporting the date of the watch's recovery. Mikenorton (talk) 11:47, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Quotes in the lead section
These two quotes were taken from the Little source (ref. 2), although they are used in quotes there, so they must have already been well known. Unfortunately they are uncited in the source. I need to rewrite that citation as the quotes come from a chapter by Donny L. Hamilton, who has written a great deal on Port Royal. Mikenorton (talk) 21:02, 28 May 2024 (UTC)