And animals seem to sense this stuff before we do, maybe our hindbrains feel it and normally we don't notice, but thats what woke you.
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― schwantz (schwantz), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link
more of the earth readjusting itself
― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― maunders (maunders), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― lxy (lxy), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lingbert (Lingbert), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link
maybe jergins is an animal?!
― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 07:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 08:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 08:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 09:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link
ten times the speed of sound = 7700 mph
7700/60 is 128, so the surface waves that animals can detect would have gotten to you in less than a minute, just to confirm schwantz' post.
I had a friend in college who used to wake up and know it had been an earthquake, though, and the next morning he'd be right, just like lots of other creatures on the earth, so I don't think it's so improbable - perhaps an aftershock got to you.
― TOM. BOT. (trm), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaq (jaq), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maaarghk C (Maaarghk C), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
What actually happened was I was listening to "De-Loused in the Comatorium" and had gone from half-asleep to asleep during "Cicatriz ESP', when it gets silent and the helicopters come in. Oh my word I have never been so startled in my life.
― RIYL Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Thursday, 21 December 2006 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 22 December 2006 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― akm (akmonday), Friday, 22 December 2006 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link
wtf
― max max max max, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Do I have a special power or was it a coincidence?
― jergins, Monday, 3 November 2008 05:08 (fifteen years ago) link
did your special power wake you up for this morning's earthquake?
― lxy, Friday, 30 January 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
whaa
― jergins, Friday, 30 January 2009 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i got a bad bad legcramp at 5. related?
― jergins, Friday, 30 January 2009 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
we had an earthquake last year (actually it was in missouri or illinois) and i detected it w/ my special powers but no one believed me until it was on the news :o
― harbl, Friday, 30 January 2009 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link