Hi All,

A lot has been said about having a vertigo symptom prior to an earthquake and sometimes during one, so I wanted to shed a little light on this topic so we might all have a much clearer picture on this topic.

First, there are several vertigo symptoms:
1. Feeling as though the room is moving when it isn't.
2. Spinning from drinking to much.
3. Inner ear infection which brings on the moving sensation around you and sometimes you feel as though you're moving and the other objects are still.
4. Spinning to such a degree that it seems faster than when one drinks to much alcohol, to much to stand, to much to sit and laying down is the only position that's safe, other than being on the floor.

Imbalance due to fluid is the cause of the sensations of one or the room moving or both. However, when at sea or going through a moving earthquake event, your mind cannot understand what is happening, so it sends a signal that is vertigo. This I found very interesting to learn, that its not the body that sends a signal of vertigo, but your mind itself.

Vertigo from drinking to much is from deadening the nerves that send signals to the brain.

Last, but not least, the fastest spin on earth, simply called a "vibratory disorder." I've had vertigo since last August. It usually arrives in the morning, but is not limited to that time of day. It arrives suddenly, but is most often associated with a bend in my back along with my neck, like leaning over to tie my shoes.

The neurologist and I had quite a discussion about this condition and as he explained it to me, its like sedimentary rock fragments that fall into these two horseshoe types of tubes that are at the bottom, under the rest of the ear structure. As little bits come falling down, the sedimentary deposits build and as a person moves and the deposits as well, it makes the person feel as though the room is spinning rapidly. The brain cannot comprehend what is happening, so it cannot adjust your vision field and thus your sense of being upright and still is changed to going round and out of control.

I am unsure about how a person gets a symptom of vertigo prior to an earthquake. I had always thought it was possible, but now having had a minimal education in ear problems I cannot see the connection.

Please keep in mind though that vertigo or vibratory disorders have nothing to do with hearing and thus those of us who believe we hear ear tones before earthquakes can also suffer from vertigo, but have one real earthquake symptom in sound and a regular physical problem in the other, ie vertigo.

I hope this information is helpful to those who read here and may have felt they had vertigo prior to earthquakes. While I cannot say that is not the case, it seems more easy to understand why it wouldn't be.

Feedback welcome..Petra