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SEISMIC WAVES - Coggle Diagram

- - - - P WAVES
        
        Cant move through solid rocks and fluids
        
        Pushes and pulls the rock
        
        Fastest kind of seismic wave, first to arrive at a seismic station
        
        Alsoknown as Compressional Waves
        
        RAYLEIGH WAVES
        
        Rolls along the ground just like a wave rolls across a lake or an ocean
        
        Most of the shaking felt from an Earthquake is due to the Rayleigh wave
        
        Named for John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, who mathematically predicted the existence of this kind of wave in 1885
        
        LOVE WAVES
        
        Named after A.E.H Love, a British Mathematician who worked out the mathematical model for this kind of wave in 1911
        
        Waves produce entirely horizontal motion
        
        Fastest surface wave and moves the ground from to side-to-side
    - - Higher frequency than surface waves
        
        Traveling through the interior of the Earth
      - Arrive before the surface waves emitted by an Earthquake
    - - Second wave you feel in an Earthquake
      - S wave is slower than P wave and can only move through solid rocks
      - Property of S waves that led seismologists to conclude the Earth's outer core is a liquid