Is It Possible To Feel Death If On A Large Enough Scale?

I was in first grade when the attacks on the Twin Towers happened on September 11th, 2001. When it happened, I swear I felt it. I burst into tears in the classroom because I just felt this horrible feeling, that something truly awful had happened. My teacher tried to ask me what was wrong, why I was crying, and I apparently I just said, "I think people are hurt, I'm scared." I don't remember anything other than this just crushing and overwhelming awful feeling and I could not stop crying. Before the teacher could really help me, another teacher showed up crying. She told my teacher to turn on the news, and there was the footage of New York City, of the damage. And I remember just staring, feeling so horrified that I was right, that something horrible did happen. My parents told me that when they came to pick me up from school I kept telling them that I knew, that I felt people get hurt. I didn't even really understand at such a young age but I felt something. I think I must've felt it as it happened. I don't think I predicted it. Is it possible that I somehow was able to feel the deaths and fears of the poor people who died that day? And what would that even be called in terms of psychic abilities? I am extremely empathic, could it be connected to that in some way or another? Is it similar to how sometimes I get the sense that I should call someone, say something to someone, and it turns out they were needing me at that moment? To this day when I think about 9/11 I react much more strongly than someone who was in first grade and who didn't know anyone who died that day ordinarily would. I feel this weight on my chest.