BURLINGTON, KY (FOX19) - Schools and government agencies in Burlington and across Northern Kentucky will join thousands of organizations across the rest of Kentucky and ten other states in the "Great Central U.S. ShakeOut" at 10:15 a.m. on April 28th.

Kentucky is one of 9 states surrounding the New Madrid Fault, which along with Georgia and South Carolina are practicing earthquake preparedness.

Indiana is the only state that will be doing its drill on a separate date, April 19th. 

The Ohio Emergency Management Agency says Ohio is also participating.  The shakeout.org website doesn't offer any significant details on that participation, nor include Ohio in their guide to state activites, though they list Ohio as an associate member of the organization. Butler County Emergency Management Director Jeff Galloway says they are participating in a 72-hour management exercise in mid-May, after being told about it by the state last week.

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KY (FOX19) - The documentary “Earth, Moon, Sun,” which was produced at Northern Kentucky University, has been selected by the Rampur Planetarium in Rampur, India, for its grand opening show.

The Rampur Planetarium is a new state-of-the-art facility and will be India’s first digital laser planetarium, the same projection technology used in NKU’s Haile Digital Planetarium. “Earth, Moon, Sun” was produced by Dan Spence, NKU planetarium director, and G. C. Thomas, planetarium artist and lecturer at NKU’s planetarium in the Department of Physics and Geology.

The show already has won international accolades, being selected as the best full-dome presentation at the Digistar Users Group’s 2009 International Planetarium Conference. Since then, thousands of area school children and scouts have seen the show at Northern while thousands more have seen it at other planetariums around the country.

COLD SPRING, KY (FOX19) - The Cold Spring Police are warning people to keep an eye on small kids and pets after a coyote sighting Tuesday night.

Police say they received a call of a group of about 8 coyotes around the 300 block of Pooles Creek Road.  The caller told police they wanted to make sure that people in the area were aware so they could to take extra precautions.

Here is advice from the Cold Spring Police:

"Take extra care if you let your pets out and keep a very close eye on children at play in that area.  Coyotes have been known to eat human rubbish and domestic pets. They catch cats and dogs when they come too close to the pack.

Urban populations of coyotes have been known to actively hunt cats, and to leap shorter fences to take small dogs. In particularly bold urban packs, coyotes have also been reported to shadow human joggers or larger dogs, and even to take small dogs while the dog is still on a leash.