When the earth gets going, there can be a lot of trouble in a number of places. The series of New Madrid giant earthquakes in 1811-12 is a case in point. In that period there was a major earthquake that killed 20,000 people in Caracas, Venezuela. During the 1902 period when Mt. Pelee in Martinique killed at least 30,000 people, nearby St. Vincent also had an earthquake that killed several thousand, and in Guatemala Santa Maria killed another 5,000. I think there was other activity in Central America as well, all around the edges of the Caribbean Plate.
I meant to say volcano, not earthquake, regarding the volcanic eruptions at St. Vincent and Santa Maria. Another interesting report was from a ship at sea. Apparently at the time of Pelee’s final big eruption, the sea became so hot that sharks and other fish were jumping to get out of it. Also, the sea dropped about 4 feet suddenly, I would suspect from the sudden emptying of a large magma chamber spread over a wide area under the crust.