"I will probably be completely wrong and hope that I am. But I wondered if anyone here - regardless of your prediction methodology - ever gets a simple old-fashioned gut feeling about a pending quake."

Yes I do. Most of the board has heard this story ad infinitum, so I will be brief. I successfully predicted the '71 Sylmar quake the night before it happened. I was living in a dorm at UCLA and told a lot of people of my gut feeling that night at dinner and afterwards. In the morning, when we were all standing in our bathrobes on some poor woman's front lawn, my friends wanted to know how I knew. I couldn't tell them. I just had a strong feeling.

I've had similar feelings for other, smaller earthquakes that have panned out. I've also had my fair share of failures.

Cathryn