That happened to me back in the day - it was the 1971 Sylmar, CA Quake -
I lived in Dana Point - woke up just before it struck - (and I am not a
morning person!) - 


Unfortunately - there are so few large quakes it's difficult to have any
hypotheses tested with any type of frequency..  or maybe I should
say fortunately..   


Canie


At 06:11 AM 1/13/2010, you wrote:

Hi All,

 

I remember when I lived in Alaska and became introduced to
earthquakes.  Several of us would talk about how we never seemed to
be awakened by a quake.  It seemed we always would wake up and then
the shaking would begin.  I don't recall any such feeling for awake
time quakes but while sleeping there seemed to be something early enough
to feel awake first.  It wasn't a special feeling like here comes a
quake but clearly awake enough to be aware of waking first.  Has
anyone else experienced something like that?  I've always attibuted
it to the P wave.  It would have been fun to have a seismograph back
then to correlate timing. 

 

Randy