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

Sep 19, 2016 6:54 PM

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I'm not claiming this as my own, just thought it was pretty neat.

"My god its Jason Ward"

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Neat.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

@stormchaser101

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My fat ass thought that was a cake.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Illuminati confirmed

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I slept through this earthquake. I went home sick and my mom ran in my room and threw me over her shoulder and took me outside lol

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bullshit...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

olympia is home!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

looks like a sideways bajingo

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Somebody needs to make this a dickbutt.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Earthquake knows what's up

9 years ago | Likes 206 Dislikes 3

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Some might say, it found the shaking........ Orgasmic. (•_•) / ( •_•)>⌐■-■ / (⌐■_■)

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I remember that day.I was in 6th grade and the lights start swaying. Sat under desks then we sat on the field eating snacks until 3.Good day

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Crazy how nature do dat.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Does he just keep a sand pendulum set up in case there's an earthquake?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They do at my college?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Right? Seems kind of unlikely. Doubly so that the quake, and surface it was shaking, came out so symmetrical.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Earth WAS a female all along!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

When Mother Nature has to literally draw it out that she's in the mood

9 years ago | Likes 197 Dislikes 4

I think the whole event was the result of her turning on her vibrator...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

surely we're doing a good job fucking her... did we hit the wrong hole??!?

9 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 0

that looks like a *looks at smudged writing on hand* verguba

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I remember that day. I was contracting @ Microsoft & the ground shook. Some guy ran in to the underground garage to rescue his Porsche.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I find this pretty hard to believe.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 6

My husband said the sidewalk rolled likes waves that day. I believe.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well, see, that's the thing. I don't think that sort of activity would create so subtle and symmetrical a pattern.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

my brick apmt building rolled like a hula-hoop, and i was in Mt. Vernon, 100 miles away

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I remember that earthquake. I was in 4th grade

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Same here! Weird seeing my hometown on imgur

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was on Ft Lewis when it happened. Weird to think about it now

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Geophysicist here: flower is the surface wave, outside of that is the P wave follow by perpendicular S wave :)

9 years ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 1

Would all 3 be going on at the same time?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

✨????✨Gotta love geophysicists. Science rocks!✨

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Are we really going to start this schist?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I consider us alloys. ???? Beer for you. ;)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Are there any more items like this online?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In other words: That's how i fingered your mom

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

The Eye of ..... make something up.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Definitely eyes. Amd I'm usually a perve.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sauron's coming back?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Everyone else is seeing vaginas. I think you and I are the only ones seeing an eye

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Found the women

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I'm with you

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I mean, there is a certain slang for vagina....

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

This eye isn't whispering, but touche.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I was there and experienced that earthquake. I was 11 years old, right before middle school and loved the feeling of the earth rolling

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

We felt that shit down in North Carolina too man

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Was that the Nisqually quake? My high school in Ferndale, up by Canada, got damaged from that one.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Me too! My teacher's computer was shaking across his desk here in Vancouver. We were so excited that we had survived the 10 second shockwave

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I remember everybody was freaking out and I just thought it was awesome lol. I was 11 too!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

My teacher laughed and told us to watch the trees sway outside. Some kid told us to get under the desks instead. LAME.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As an Olympian, everyone remembers exactly where they were that day

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

8th grade y'all

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Bremerton here. 6th grade and the lights started swaying and we had to sit under our desks. Mrs. Argyle was mad that we were laughing.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I certainly do! I was sitting at my 5th grade desk.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I definitely do. It was registration day for Tumwater HS. I was at home sitting at our dining table and my sister was napping on the couch.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Think we should mention that it was actually called the Nisqually quake?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

me too, my apartment was doing the hula-hoop action. and it was made of brick.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

so how was Rio?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Kelso Longview too!!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Redmond here, I was sitting in my 6th grade class and thought it was odd that the bookshelf was shaking.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Very true. Im from Tumwater and its currently replaying in my head.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Ha ha! Me too! I was sitting at home, not signing up for classes at THS where I should have been.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm from Tumwater too! I remember it clearly as well.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wait earthquakes can hit Olympia. Now i gotta be afraid of volcanoes, earthquakes and sasquatches

9 years ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 0

Ring of Fire

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was in that one and lived on Capitol Hill. You could see the skyscrapers and needle sway. Yes, be afraid, it's due for a biggie.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

That's why I avoid the viaduct like the plague!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

lul neckbeard so funny

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

No joke, the new tunnel being dug by bertha is going to be way more dangerous. It is insane that the project is even being done

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

At least there aren't any venomous animals.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Black widows occasionally.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lots of homeless drug addicts, which is close enough.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2001 was the last quake up here, I remember my 6th grade class shaking to this day.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I was in 6th grade when it happened too! I wore my "I survived the Nisqually earthquake" shirt that my dad got me the week after.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

5th grade in Puyallup. The cabinets by my desk flung open and threw pens, pencils, rulers, etc. at me.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I thought someone was sharpening pencils on the other wall, then it was carts on the roof above me, then the shaking. We were all confused

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I was in 9th. It closed school for the day! BEST DAY!!!

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I was in 1st grade, i honest to god thought it was a stampede of elephants coming through Tumwater Hill, lol.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I remember being really little and thinking that the building I happened to be in was being shaken as a test by a big moving table under it.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I was in Jr. High science class. I was worried that the beakers and bunsen burners would topple over and shatter.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I was at home. I remember asking my little sister to stay where she was while I went to wake dad. He came running out of the room at (1

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The same time I went for him. When I asked about it later, the earthquake didn't wake him, the lamp next to the bed had hit him on the head.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Anywhere there is a volcano there can also be earthquakes. The west coast sits along a lot of fault lines, as well. I can't help you with>

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

> sasquatches, except maybe to tell you to quit teasing them.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Don't forget the flash floods, hurricane-force windstorms, and frequent hipster sightings. It is a terrible, dangerous place.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Exactly. Please don't ever move here. It's terrible....

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

just don't tell anyone about all the good things and we'll be fine.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Shhhhhhhh

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The coffee, good lord the coffee!! AND THE HOMEBREWS!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yes...the coffee and beer are also undrinkable....stay awayyyyyyyyy!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

hahaha

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is that one of those "vaginas" I hear so much about?

9 years ago | Likes 2013 Dislikes 21

i wouldn't know

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thank you Mother Terissa for helping me find the G spot.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i think you mean virginias

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

No, here's one of them:

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 6

"I've never had vagina. No body ever seems to throw it out" - Ralph

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes and with this one you can still pick the flower....

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thatsavagina.gif

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's a whispering eye

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I believe it's "bergina."

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Heh. 1st thought that occurred to me. Also "no one's idiot to think stuff like that". NOT the case, evidently

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because they both shake all the time.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's the next post over

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

no

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We need a that's a vagina gif

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina."

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Not me VAGINA,I licked that problem long ago

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

For me, it's more like a dog whistle.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Guardians of the clit

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

....feels like a bag of sand

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But where are the balls? Vaginas have balls right? -Eric Cartman probably

9 years ago | Likes 88 Dislikes 3

"and here are the vagina's balls"

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I was about to type this. Damn. I'm not the special snowflake I thought I was.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a Virgin dont they

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nope, virgin vaginas has a flower, hence the term "deflower someone" No flower, not virgin. The more you know! ;)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep! They feel nice and dry, coarse, and sandy!

9 years ago | Likes 464 Dislikes 1

Ani are you okay?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Only if you get the ones that ask for a manager

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"I hate sand...its coarse and rough and it gets into everything"

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I know mine does! :D

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sometimes I get a sandy vagina.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No wonder Woodhouse is gay. (Bonus points if anyone gets the reference)

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

Then how in hell did Anakin ever have children?

9 years ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 0

Tatooine bruh.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

midichlorians.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Ew ew ew. Oh god! It feels just like sand!

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Goddamn it... The Earth has a seizure and still is a better artist than I.

9 years ago | Likes 1710 Dislikes 8

.... Than I do. -English grammar book, probably

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 19

"Still a better artist than I do". English grammar book says you're wrong too.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

I laughed, thanks :D

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"than me".

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 6

Prepositional phrases, people!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

if the earth had a seizure, I think all of us would be dead

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Awww

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

But you have fantastic grammar so you've got that going for you, which is noice

9 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 2

Lolololololol, this needs to be top comment!

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 9

+1 for excellent grammar. Thank your english teacher.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

It just had the right tools (in this case, a sand pendulum). Just find your tool. ......phrasing, but, still.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I need a scanning electronic microscope to find my tool...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Are hippogriffs nearsighted or something?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No, but I wasn't role playing my username.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah dude, have you seen nature. Best graphics ever!

9 years ago | Likes 153 Dislikes 1

Crazy how nature does that!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

/r/Outside is calling you home

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

The resolution is breath taking.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But IRL is so pay-to-win.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hate the story though

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

For some reason all the NPCs hate me.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My video card can't handle that... I think I'll stay indoors.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

But what's the fps?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's a Georgia O'Keeffe "flower"

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Wait, wasn't He in A Wrinkle in Time?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Rosebud"

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It does look suspiciously like a vagina!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*Georgia O'Queef(fe)

9 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 11

It doesn't matter Woodhouse I'm leaving! Go nuts! Hang a bunch of Georgia O'Keeffe posters..?

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Wait, I got it! Casablumpkin.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No way. It's not blatant enough to look like a vagina.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Those are vaginas, this is an eye

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"The flowers in your painting, what do they represent?"

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

She didn't intentionally sexualise her works, that was how the audience interpreted them. She even told the media multiple times

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

I was hoping someone would say this. I saw her exhibition at the Tate modern, going in thinking that and was very wrong.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Even worse, her first husband was the one who started it (very much against her wishes), as he marketed her.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's a Georgia O'Queef "vegene"

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is not what female genitalia looks like...

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yeahhh... except for it kind of does. Source? I have female genitalia.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

As the owner of my own set of female genitalia, go to the doctor if yours look like that, please.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The natural occurrences of tectonic shifts is really natural vagina art.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

its a vagina yo

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Pweew I thought it was only me who could see pussies on those paintings.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Really? Those paintings are infamous for it... that's the reputation they have in the art world...

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Kind of sad, she said herself many times they were not genitalia, but alas, that's what she will be remembered by.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Yes. I learned this at her Santa Fe museum.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hehe, I was being ironic mate!

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You mean a vagina

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I learned about Georgia O'Keeffe from Breaking Bad.

9 years ago | Likes 300 Dislikes 6

I learned about Georgia O'Keeffe from Island of Dr. Brain.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I learned about her in everybody loves raymond

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I had forgotten the reputation until I watched it, up to third season now. Finally know what I was missing.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yo, I thought I was gonna see some, like, vaginas.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Looks more like a fucked up eye.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm just having a shit after rewatching that episode randomly!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I've got an O'keeffe print in my house, it make women want to fuck, because of the implication

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

That's why I'm going with a boat. Out on the open ocean. Anything could happen.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Because the of implications

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Refresh my memory... how? I've seen BB but haven't watched it since it ended.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Jesse and Jane made plans to go to the gallery to see some O'Keefe stuff one time. Nothing spectacular just a comment on the subject matter.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ah, here I was worried there was a plot point around it lol

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

samesies!

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Double samesies!

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Smoking marijuana, eating Cheetos, and masturbating do not constitute "plans" in my book.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I learned about O'Keefe from JumpStart 3rd Grade. Unfortunately, they covered mostly her landscapes.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Why unfortunate? Those are amazing too.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

True; I was just attempting to make a joke about 'surprisingly, something aimed at kids didn't talk about vagina-flowers'.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fuck that was one of my favourite games growing up. Sadly never completed it because of a bug.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Honestly, I've tried to replay the jumpstart games as an adult. Theyre too old for most computers to play nice I've found. works, but barely

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That makes me a little sad that art education isn't a little more widespread

9 years ago | Likes 71 Dislikes 10

Something something...Georgia O'Keefe's flower being widespread.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I learned about Georgia O'Keeffe during a school field trip to New Mexico

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Care to enlighten a peasant?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'd say Google can show you more than I can tell, but she painted flowers that shall we say embody femininity

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I learned about Georgia O'Keefe from that guy's comment

9 years ago | Likes 55 Dislikes 1

Did you just assume their gender?

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 6

Triggered!!!

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

The username is Guybreezy... did you just assume he assumed their gender?!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0