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"There were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage in Kentucky following an earthquake centered in eastern Illinois.While the temblor was widely felt in our area, there are no reports of any major damage or injuries. It did mean an early wake-up call for Mayor Jerry Abramson.\"I thought that my cat had run up against the window and there was a cat outside,\" he said at a press conference.But as it turned out, Abramson's early alarm just after 5:30 a.m. wasn't a feline, it was a fault line -- an earthquake along the Wabash fault line.By the time MetroSafe Director Doug Hamilton called the mayor, the check for damages was already under way.Part of a building had fallen on Kentucky Avenue, but there was no other severe damage.LG&amp;E crews are in the process of checking their gas lines, but so far have found no breaks.\"We think we've had around 10 calls of smelling gas,\" said LG&amp;E representative Chip Keeling. \"We've gone to check those areas out; they've checked out negative.\"There were also no reports of problems with Louisville's thousands of miles of water or sewer lines due to the quake, even though some of those sewer lines date back to the 19th century.\"All of that, to this point, is in normal operating condition,\" said MSD representative Bud Schardein. \"We haven't lost service to anyone.\"Jefferson County schools administrators checked their buildings and found no problems.\"Some of you were reporting a main break at First and Orsmby this morning,\" said Louisville Water Company representative Barbara Crow in a statement. \"Initially we thought it was just ground water seepage... but later I found out that it\u0092s actually a leak on a main that we\u0092ve known about and that is slated for repair -- not earthquake related.\"Bridges and overpasses are also being checked so far without an issue, and the city's parking garages have also been examined.\"They've all been checked by the Parking Authority of River City and they've had no problem whatsoever,\" Abramson said.Perhaps the greatest danger was people flooding the 911 lines with non-emergency phone calls. Hamilton said the 911 center received 20 times their normal call volume after the quake.\"911 is not a place to call to get news,\" he said. \"If you're in danger, if you're injured, if your building is damaged in some way, certainly call us.\"Earthquakes are certainly a relatively rare occurrence in the Louisville area. In terms of the city's own risk assessment, it's well below problems like flooding.Abramson, a lifelong Louisville resident, said he couldn't remember another earthquake.Kentucky State Police dispatcher Natalie Alsip at the post in Henderson, just across the Ohio River from Evansville, Ind., said telephone calls poured into the post following the quake early Friday and one man reported cracked plaster at his home.A dispatcher at the KSP post in Mayfield said there were many phone calls from western Kentucky locations, but no indication of injury or serious damage.The U.S. Geological Survey reports the 5.4 magnitude quake was centered near the Illinois-Indiana border, about six miles east-southeast of New Salem, Illinois, at 4:35 a.m. CDT. They also reported four minor aftershocks from Friday's earthquake, the fourth of which registered 4.5.If you have any video imagery of the quake as it happened, please contact WLKY at (502) 893-7300."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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