11-14-12 —    Many Wayne County residents felt the earth move just after 12 noon  on Saturday, when an earthquake occurred in far Eastern Kentucky.

    No damage was reported locally, but there were some reports of  people experiencing the tremor.

    The U.S. Geological survey indicated that a 4.3 magnitude  

earthquake, centered at Blackey in Letcher County, occurred at 12:08  p.m. Saturday. Blackey is located about 10 miles west of Whitesburg.

    The trembling lasted for several seconds, and there were some  reports of Wayne County residents who heard dishes rattle or felt  furniture move. Others said they heard a noise that resembled thunder  at the time of the earthquake.

    The tremor was apparently felt not only in Kentucky, but in  

Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia—even as far north as Ohio and  as far south as Georgia.

    Although fewer earthquakes are reported east of the Rocky Mountains  than in the western part of the country, the few that do occur in  Kentucky historically occur toward the western part of the state near  the Madrid Fault Line, which stretches from New Madrid, Missouri to  the Southwestern U.S. Not this time though. There were reports that  Saturday's quake was the strongest to originate in Kentucky since a  5.2 quake that hit Bath County in 1980.