Since Tam mentioned the 62AD Pompeii earthquake, I thought I’d post this frieze from the exhibit. For at least some time in the fifteen years between the earthquake and the volcanic eruption, people would be walking right past this image of marble columns shaking and rattling all around.
Seems odd to think on… but then again, people go to play in Anchorage’s Earthquake Park all the time.
The greatest problem with Earthquake Park, lo these nearly 50 years later, is that weathering has reduce most of the jagged edges to rounded mounds, and it loses some of the impact (bad pun alert).