255,300 Ky. Residents Sign up for Earthquake Drill
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – About 255,300 Kentucky residents and more than 2.1 million people in a wide swath of the central U.S. have registered to participate in the region’s largest earthquake disaster preparedness drill.
The Kentucky Division of Emergency Management is asking participants to “drop, cover, and hold on,” at 10:15 a.m. CDT April 28.
Spokesman Buddy Rogers says the region’s next big earthquake can’t be predicted but damage will range in the billions of dollars.
Schools, businesses, individual citizens, and government officials will participate in the exercise.
Dubbed the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut, the drill will be a prelude to a weeklong national earthquake preparedness exercise starting on May 16.
Kentucky is in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Experts estimate that the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes were a maximum magnitude 7.0.
