The Earthquake Rose

Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:30 pm » by **Poooooot**

http://www.futilitycloset.com/2012/11/1 ... uake-rose/

When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook Olympia, Wash., in 2001, shopowner Jason Ward discovered that a sand-tracing pendulum had recorded the vibrations in the image above.

Seismologists say that the "flower" at the center reflects the higher-frequency waves that arrived first; the outer, larger-amplitude oscillations record the lower-frequency waves that arrived later.

"You never think about an earthquake as being artistic -- it's violent and destructive," Norman MacLeod, president of Gaelic Wolf Consulting in Port Townsend, told ABC News. "But in the middle of all that chaos, this fine, delicate artwork was created."

Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:40 pm » by **WillEase666**

Nice momentary escape from the WTF world news...thanks...bump.

Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:59 pm » by **420milehigh**

yeah

that's pretty awesome, thanks poooooot.... I think I just might have to make one of these sand pendulums

Sat Nov 17, 2012 1:52 am » by **Truthdefender**

Sweet! Very cool. :cheers:

Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:24 am » by **Flipper**

that is a really nice thing to come from a earthquake.

Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:33 am » by **Pitchke**

Earthquake art... Use some plaster on it and I wonder how mutch its going to sell....

Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:24 pm » by **Richc**

I really do have a dirty mind.. :lol:

Its like one of those blob pictures... "tell me what you see here".. :oops:

Nice post poooooot. :flop:

RIK