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Seismic Waves - Coggle Diagram

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        P-waves (primary waves)
        
        Is a pulse energy that travels quickly through the Earth and through liquids, and travels faster than the S-wave.
        
        After an earthquake, it reaches a detector first.
        
        Also called compression waves, travel by particles vibrating parallel to the direction the wave travel.
        
        They force the ground to move backward and forward as they are compressed and expanded.
        
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        S-waves(secondary waves )
        
        is a pulse energy that travels slower than a p-wave through Earth and solids.
        
        The s-wave move as shear or transverse waves, and force the ground to sway from side to side, in rolling motion that shakes the ground back and forth perpendicular to the direction of the waves.
      - A body wave is a seismic wave that moves through the interior of the earth, as opposed to surface waves that travel near the earth's surface. P and S waves are body waves.
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        Rayleight Waves
        
        Named after the British physicist John William Strutt also know as Lord Rayleigh .Rolls along the ground like a wave rolls across a lake or an ocean and has low frequency and strong energy
        
        Love Waves
        
        It is named after a mathematician Augustus Edward Hough Love FRS, often known as A. E. H. Love. Tend to travel faster than Rayleigh waves, twisting the ground as it moves horizontally from side to side. Love waves is faster than Rayleigh waves and move side to side in horizontal motion like a snake
      - Surface waves is a type of seismic waves which can only move along the surface of the earth. It is usually have larger amplitudes and longer wavelenghts than body waves.