The quake have a depth of 23 km, was in the Appalachian Mountains near the Virginia border, and centered in the rural town of Blackey, the agency said.
the quake was notiecable in 9 US States
West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio und Indiana.
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Lt. Ken Sexton of the Whitesburg Fire Department said officials in Letcher County were currently trying to assess damages, but they had not received any reports of injuries about an hour after the quake.
National Weather Service and National Geological Service have confirmed it.
Meteorologist Chris Bailey of WKYT said Saturday’s earthquake was the second strongest quake on record in Kentucky after a 5.2 quake hit that hit Bath County in 1980.
The National Earthquake Information Center of the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed the quake at 12:08 p.m. On social media, people reported feeling it as far west as Lexington and Mount Sterling.
But the most dramatic effects were in Eastern Kentucky.
Will Nash of Teach for America was in Prestonsburg doing a professional development training with a group of 25 teachers.
“Felt it in the library as ceiling fans and books shook,” he wrote on Twitter.
Dispatcher Barbara Brashear of Perry County emergency services in Hazard said they had received two reports of property damage so far, but no injuries.
“We have reports of a lot of pictures falling off the wall,” she said. “We’ve been told it was felt as far up as Cincinnati and as far south as Georgia.”
State Police in Hazard cover five counties — Perry, Letcher, Knott, Leslie, Perry and Breathitt. Dispatcher Ryan Adams said there were no injuries or structural damage report, but “we’re getting reports from all across the region of people’s pictures being knocked off the wall, and ceramic figurines being broken,” he said.
Tom Monarch was on the second floor of his Chevy Chase home when he felt a vibration like an “unbalanced washing machine.”
“It sustained for a little over 30 seconds,” he said, but it reminded him of feeling the 1980 earthquake when he was a child in Frankfort. “It kept vibrating and then it tapered off.”
Harlan County emergency services reported no injuries or property damage.
source: kentucky.com
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