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    The document discusses different types of seismic waves that result from earthquakes and other seismic events. There are two main types of seismic waves: body waves and surface waves. Body waves travel through the interior of the Earth and include P-waves, which are longitudinal, and S-waves, which are transverse. Surface waves travel across the Earth's surface and cause more damage. The two main types of surface waves are Love waves, which move horizontally, and Rayleigh waves, which move up and down and side-to-side in the direction of propagation.

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    The document discusses different types of seismic waves that result from earthquakes and other seismic events. There are two main types of seismic waves: body waves and surface waves. Body waves travel through the interior of the Earth and include P-waves, which are longitudinal, and S-waves, which are transverse. Surface waves travel across the Earth's surface and cause more damage. The two main types of surface waves are Love waves, which move horizontally, and Rayleigh waves, which move up and down and side-to-side in the direction of propagation.

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    The document discusses different types of seismic waves that result from earthquakes and other seismic events. There are two main types of seismic waves: body waves and surface waves. Body waves travel through the interior of the Earth and include P-waves, which are longitudinal, and S-waves, which are transverse. Surface waves travel across the Earth's surface and cause more damage. The two main types of surface waves are Love waves, which move horizontally, and Rayleigh waves, which move up and down and side-to-side in the direction of propagation.

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    The document discusses different types of seismic waves that result from earthquakes and other seismic events. There are two main types of seismic waves: body waves and surface waves. Body waves travel through the interior of the Earth and include P-waves, which are longitudinal, and S-waves, which are transverse. Surface waves travel across the Earth's surface and cause more damage. The two main types of surface waves are Love waves, which move horizontally, and Rayleigh waves, which move up and down and side-to-side in the direction of propagation.

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    SEISMIC WAVES:

    Waves of energy that travel through


    the Earth's layers, and are a result
    of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,
    magma movement, large landslides and
    large man-made explosions that give
    out low-frequency acoustic energy.
    Mechanical vibrations that occur inside
    the earth (along fault lines) which is
    caused by the breakage of rocks
    MAIN TYPES OF SEISMIC WAVES:

    •Body Waves
    •Surface Waves
    •Body Waves
    -travels through the interior of the
    earth.
    - energy that is actually being
    transferred through a body.
    - fastest moving waves.
    •Surface Waves
    - travel across the surface.
    - particle motion of surface waves is
    larger than that of body waves, so surface
    waves tend to cause more damage.
    SUBTYPES OF BODY WAVES:

    •P-Wave (Primary Wave)


    •S- Wave (Secondary Wave)
    P-WAVE
    - It can travel through air, liquid, and, solid. It can travel
    at nearly twice the speed of S waves.
    - The fastest kind of seismic wave.
    -P-waves also known as compressional waves that
    are longitudinal in nature. Its particles move in the same
    direction that the wave is moving in, which is the
    direction that the energy is traveling in, and is sometimes
    called the 'direction of wave propagation'.
    S-WAVE
    - It can only travel through solid.
    - It moves slower than the P-waves.
    - S-waves are shear waves that are transverse in nature.
    Following an earthquake event, S-waves arrive at
    seismograph stations after the faster-moving P-waves
    and displace the ground perpendicular to the direction
    of propagation.
    SUBTYPES OF SURFACE WAVES:

    •Love Wave
    •Surface Wave
    LOVE WAVE
    • It was named after A.E.H. Love, a British mathematician who
    worked out the mathematical model for this kind of wave in
    1911.
    • It causes the rocks they pass through to change in shape.
    • It's the fastest surface wave and moves the ground from side-
    to-side.
    • Confined to the surface of the crust, Love waves produce
    entirely horizontal motion.
    • Cause the most damage from earthquake
    RAYLEIGH WAVE
    - It was named for John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, who
    mathematically predicted the existence of this kind of wave in
    1885.
    - It is also called ground roll, surface waves that travel as ripples
    with motions that are similar to those of waves on the surface of
    water.
    - It moves the ground up and down, and side-to-side in the same
    direction that the wave is moving.
    - Most of the shaking felt from an earthquake is due to the
    Rayleigh wave, which can be much larger than the other waves.
    S-WAVE (TRANSVERSE WAVE)
    P-WAVE
    (COMPRESSIONAL/LONGITUDINAL)
    RAYLEIGH WAVE
    LOVE WAVE

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