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Earthquake Waves

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Are you looking for what constitute earthquake waves, rather than what they are called? The latter has been covered by your other respondents. If it is the what they are constituted of then - Earthquake waves are the physical expression of...
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There are four basic seismic waves: two preliminary "body" waves that travel through the earth, and two that travel only at the surface. Combinations, reflections, and diffractions produce a virtual infinity of other types. The be...
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when waves from an earthquake reach the instrament, the inertia of the weight keeps it stationary, while earth and the support vibrate. Seismographs amplify and electronically record ground motion.
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The secondary wave (an (S) wave) causes the most damage of all waves of an earthquake.
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Propagation of earthquake waves within the Earth is not uniform. Experiments indicate that the velocity of shear waves in Earth’s lower mantle between 660 and 2900 km depth is strongly dependent on the orientation of ferropericlase. This en...
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Lisa. Thanks for sending me question and your question get me on back foot as I am not a seismic ...
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No earthquake, but they are waiting for the tsunami.
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Yes, an enormous amount of new information is coming in from the new sites. We must not forget Mehrgarh which goes back to about 8000 BCE which was excavated in the late 70s. The most exciting thing is that major sites of Ganweriwala and Ra...
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Note that there have been many earthquakes occuring worldwide in the past few months, especially in 2010. The CERN LHC giant particle accelerator was turned on at the end of 2009, and has been doing experiments in 2010. It is by far the lar...
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･ There are three types of seismic waves creating by earthquakes. The first wave is a compressional wave... ･ Shear waves, also known as S-waves, move perpendicular to the direction of travel. They travel out in... ･ Surface waves, also kno...
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