Liz,
I too am partial to looking at the scientific
side for explanations. In fact, I was going to
major in biology, before I took psychology and
decided to get my BA degree in that instead. The
point is, that there is something that makes
some animals sensitive, humans included. Some
attribute it to a religious experience, some
disagree, and some find a combination more to
their liking. The key is to experiment with it.
It is currently labeled unexplained, but with
groups like this, maybe we can come to a consensus
on what is happening in terms of a scientific
explanation. Keeping a journal is a really good
idea. With as many quakes as we have, it's next
to impossible to keep all that info in your mind.
Don't be angry with anyone for their Bible quotes.
If you don't like it, skip over it. You can see it
coming. I personally, don't like to read other
predictions because they may influence my
predictions. I want to be true to my feelings and
not have outside influence. So I walk through the
other predictions gingerly and always try to pay
attention to what I am feeling. It may help you
to assume that no one else is accurate at all.
Not that they aren't accurate, but if this was
truly scientific, you wouldn't have anything else
that might influence you. You would have to make
your predictions from a room without windows and
any other human contact. That way would be the
most scientific way to determine whether there
was anything to earthquake sensitivity. There
aren't many people that could do that. We all have
other parts of our lives that we have to tend to.
So we have to do the best we can with what we
have. As for me, I'm interested in the
psychobiological aspect of the experience. I am
partial to the belief that there is a magnetic
sensitivity that is much more apparent in some
people. It may be similar to magnetite that allows
birds and marine life to migrate to the right
place at the right time. I am guessing that people
who are sensitive to this are the same people that
never get lost. They always know their orientation
in respect to directions (north, east, south,
west and up and down). Some people may know by
the orientation of the sun and stars, but some
also know which way they are going on a long trip,
on a cloudy day, after sleeping in the back seat
while someone else drives. I choose to experiment
with this as mcuh as possible. I am finding that
making predictions for me is almost like a
gambling addiction. I find that if I go for more
than a day without any significant "symptoms" then
I jump at the first weird feeling that comes
along. This also happens to be most of the times
that I am wrong. And sometimes your mind has to be
elsewhere and you miss the opportunity to make a
prediction on a sure thing. It's all a big
experiment into the mysteries of the human mind.

Sorry for going on and on about this,

Steven T.