Some knew it was coming University experts just 28 minutes off time of event
 

N Venkatanathan, research scholar, who is currently undergoing a Ph.D programme in Predicting Earthquake and Aseismic Construction Designing and the man behind the team working on predictions, said he had already presented a report about the Indonesian earthquake on 22 December to members of the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi.

The 15-member team headed by S K Tandan were in Chennai at that time for a meeting.

Venkatanathan, said, 'we predicted that the disaster will occur on 26 December 2004 at 00:30 (GMT) with 3.54 N latitude and 97.17E longitude, which is located near the coast of Banyak Island, Sumatra, Indonesia, with a magnitude at around 6 to 7. The actual calamity occurred on 26 December 2004 at 00:58 (GMT), with 3.298 N latitude and 95.779 E longitude, located off the west coast of northern Sumatra'.

The difference in distance between the predicted place and the epicentre was 157.11899 km with a time difference of 28 minutes. He also said the team had predicted that the after-shocks would occur at 700 km to the South of the epicentre between 5 pm and 6 pm. This was recorded with permissible error. It occurred at 157 km from the epicentre. That is with the error of 521 km.

http://newstodaynet.com/27DEC/SS6.HTM

Well thats close enough for Geological time if you ask me....to be right on the nuts.....

There are reports that most of the animals did feel it coming also. They didn't find many dead wild animals, most of them escaped a few minutes before running to higher grounds.

how often do you see wild animals on a beach?

I dont believe that those 100,000 deads were all suntanning on the beach. Some of the waves made their ways 20 kilometers in the ground.