This is a compartmentalized system. I have been learning to discern different types of side pains associated with faults and surfaces. I also have been working on distinguishing sensations from local seismic activity to more distant earthquake activity. When I was living in Florida and first starting this, I would be feeling a subtle tingling and deep vibrations from various directions. It was amplified due to the loose and granulated soil. Therefore, I was more acutely sensitive to significant earthquake activity around the world. I was still picking up on it from Tennessee when I would be visiting my grandparents in 2011 and 2012. I can remember my earliest experimenting from a trip there back in February and March 2011.
I was on fire in the 2 weeks leading up to the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The sensations I felt in Tennessee were slightly less acute for I was on more firm soil laden with beds of limestone and shale. When I first moved to California in December 2012, I thought I would be isolated to just picking up on whatever is going on in the region. I payed less attention to what was taking place elsewhere in the world when I first moved here. Then I learned I was still deeply in touch with the rest of the planet. I have most recently been trying to figure out various distances at which symptoms occur prior to an earthquake which its size. I recall feeling a sharp pain in my left side a few hours to a day prior to distant large earthquakes - 100 to more than 1,500 miles away. However, I have not been entirely sure.
Those times I felt those sharp side pains could have been from a rise in energy in smaller faults around here. I am just now starting to speculate that perhaps it could also be from impending earthquakes along the Eastern part of the Pacific plate boundary. The San Andreas fault connects to the other boundaries to the North and South. It is a clean line that stretches on each side to Southern Alaska to Central America. So, it extends along most of the North American plate boundary. To the South, it cuts off to much more subtle and dull sensations past the Caribbean and Cocos Plates. Towards the North, the stronger distant sensations probably end near the far eastern notch just before the Kamchatka Peninsula. When it came to July's earthquake sequence, I felt some sharp side pains hours prior to it. 100 miles is so much closer than 1,000 miles.
However, the land bordering the rest of Southern California to the Eastern California Shear Zone would be segregated by the Garlock Fault. If a big quake struck along the Garlock Fault or anywhere else South of it, then maybe I would have felt a lot more beforehand. The faults that ruptured did not quite touch the Garlock Fault(however, it triggered slight movement). The acute pains from distant impending earthquakes would be a result of energy building up, yet too far away or cut off by faulting for it to impact me that profoundly. I have noted that I would feel a deep stabbing or gripping pain in my left side whenever there would be more activity occurring along a long fault that would be capable of producing a major earthquake. I have been afraid to find out what I will be feeling whenever a major quake such as "the big one" finally happens here.
I have found myself frustrated and unsatisfied for I would need that for complete confirmation that this is real.
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