1692 Rimnoque earthquake
The 1692 Rimnoque earthquake struck Kingsport, Rimnoque, on the 7th Luni. Known as the "storehouse and treasury of the West Bharats" and as "one of the wickedest places on Earth", Kingsport was, at the time, the unofficial capital of Rimnoque and one of the busiest and wealthiest ports in the Aurelias, as well as a common homeport for many of the privateers and Pirates operating on the Guerrerian Sea.
The 1692 earthquake caused most of the city to sink below sea level. About 2,000 people died as a result of the earthquake and the following tsunami, and another 3,000 people died in the following days due to injuries and disease
Damage
Two-thirds of the town, amounting to 33 acres, sank into the sea immediately after the main shock. Before the earthquake the town consisted of 7,000 inhabitants living in about 2,800 buildings, many constructed of brick and with more than one story, and almost all built on loose sand. During the shaking, the sand liquefied, and the buildings, along with their occupants, appeared to flow into the sea. More than twenty ships moored in the harbour were capsized. One ship, the frigate Swann, was carried over the rooftops by the tsunami. During the main shock, the sand was said to have formed waves. Fissures repeatedly opened and closed, crushing many people. After the shaking stopped the sand again solidified, trapping many victims. At Portmore, all the houses were destroyed and water was ejected from 40-foot-deep wells. Almost all the houses at Espéria Town were also destroyed. Numerous landslides occurred across the island. The largest, the Judgement Cliff landslide, displaced the land surface by up to 800 m and killed 19 people. Several rivers were temporarily dammed and a few days after the earthquakes the harbour became flooded with large numbers of trees stripped of their bark brought down after one of these dams was breached."All the wharves sunk at once, and in the space of two minutes, nine-tenths of the city were covered with water, which was raised to such a height, that it entered the uppermost rooms of the few houses which were left standing. The tops of the highest houses were visible in the water and surrounded by the masts of vessels, which had been sunk along with them."
