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SEISMIC WAVE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - IT TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH, ARRIVES BEFORE THE SURFACE WAVES EMITTED BY AN EARTHQUAKE, AND THESE WAVE HAS A HIGHER FREQUENCY THAN SURFACE WAVES
      - TWO TYPES OF BODY WAVES
        
        SECONDARY WAVES
        
        THE WAVE THAT YOU FEEL AN EARTHQUAKE
        
        SLOWER THAN PRIMARY WAVES
        
        ONLY TRAVELS THROUGH SOLID ROCK NOT TRHOUGH ANY LIQUID MEDIUM
        
        PRIMARY WAVES
        
        FASTEST KIND OF SEISMIC WAVE
        
        TRAVELS THROUGH LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS
    - - AT OR NEAR EARTH'S SURFACE AND DECREASE IN AMPLITUDE WITH DEPTH
        
        TRAVELS SLOWER THAN BODY WAVES
      - TWO TYPES OF SURFACE WAVES
        
        RAYLEIGH WAVE
        
        NAMED FOR JOHN WILLIAM STRUTT ALSO KNOWN AS "LORD RAYLEIGH" WHO MATHEMATICALLY PREDICTED THE EXISTENCE OF THIS WAVE IN 1885
        
        IT MOVES THE GROUND UP AND DOWN AND SIDE- TO- SIDE IN THE SAME DIRECTION THAT THE WAVE IS MOVING
        
        LOVE WAVE
        
        NAMED FOR AUGUSTUS EDWARD HOUGH LOVE, A BRITISH MATHEMATICIAN WHO WORKED OUT THE MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR THIS KIND OF WAVE IN 1991.
        
        FASTEST SURFACE WAVE AND MOVES THE GROUND FROM
        SIDE- TO- SIDE. CONFINED TO THE SURFACE OF THE CRUST