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What are two categories of seismic waves?
The two main categories of seismic waves are body waves and surface waves. Body waves can travel through the earth's inner layers, but surface waves can only move along the surface of the Earth.
What are the two categories of seismic?
The two main categories of seismic waves are body waves and surface waves. Body waves can travel through the earth's inner layers, but surface waves can only move along the surface of the Earth.
Which type of earthquakes waves move the slowest?
The surface waves (composed in turn of the Rayleigh and Love waves) are the slowest seismic waves.
How fault is formed?
The surface of earth is in constant motion because of forces inside the planet. These forces cause sections of earth's surface, called plates, to move.
Why do tectonic plates produce seismic waves?
Tectonic plates are always trying to slowly move, but they more often than not find another tectonic plate in there path of motion. After enough pressure is built up between these plates trying to move past each other, a sudden "jerk" between them happens, and the restoring force from this "jerk" causes the waves we call "seismic waves" to happen.
How do particles move in a surface wave?
Surface Waves can propagate only along the boundary of solid.Two types are:Rayliegh Waves propagate along boundary between two dissimilar solid media, in a plane perpendicular to the surface and containing the direction of propagation.Love Waves are polarized shear wave with an associated oscillatory particle motion parallel to the free space and perpendicular to the direction wave motion.
Particles in a wave move in an elliptical or circular motion?
surface waves
Ocean waves are what kind of wave type?
Ocean waves are mechanical waves. The waves on the surface are surface waves (particles move in a circular motion) while the waves in the depths are longitudinal (particles move parallel to the wave propogation).
What happens the the p wave when they strike the inner core?
When the P wave strikes the inner core it bends and goes in a different direction.
Which type of wave is characterized by circular motion?
Surface waves from an earthquake shake the ground back and forth and up and down. So basically in a circular motion. This wave is the most dangerous wave released during and earthquake and it comes after the p and s waves. The Surface wave is the last wave that comes after the other 2. So yea' these surface waves move in a circular motion
How do Rayleigh waves move the ground?
Rayleigh waves cause the ground to move with an elliptical, rolling motion.
what is the difference between longitudinal and surface waves?
Longitudinal wave particles move parallel to the way the wave is moving. Surface wave particles move in a circular motion.
What is the reason that surface waves usually cause the most damage?
Surface waves (L and R waves) have both higher amplitudes and lower frequencies than body waves, and these low frequencies often match the resonant frequencies of man-made structures
Do surface waves only move in back and forth motions?
No. Surface waves travel across the country, and the land moves up and down. An example is sea waves.
How do wave particles move?
Particles in transverse waves oscillate in a vertical motion. (they move up and down, Just in case ;))
What Longitudinal wave that is first to reach the location of an earthquake?
Transverse
Compared to P waves and S waves do surface waves move slower or faster?
Surface waves move slower. P waves are the fastest. Surface waves are the slowest. they are slowest but most destructive.
