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p waves |
primary waves
compressive waves thru solid and liquid
fastest compressional |
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s waves |
secondary waves
shear waves thru solids
slower than p waved transverse |
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seismic waves |
waves of energy that travel through the earth's layer result if an earthquake, explosion, or eruption |
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2 types of seismic waves |
body, surface |
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body waves |
primary and secondary |
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surface waves |
below or along the ground's surface slowest-moving waves rolling and side to side |
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love waves |
from the point directly above the epicenter lithosphere causes ripples on surface most damaging |
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rayleigh waves |
free surface of an elastic dsolkd aa the earth longitudinal compression and dilation that results in an elloptical motion points spread out most in time |