P waves are the least damaging and only travel left and right, forward and backward along the horizontal plane. S waves are the most dangerous because they cause up and down motion and travel along the surface and solids of a medium causing the most destructive force. However they do not travel as far as P-waves. This is why earthquakes across the planet are felt on the other side. AKA Japan earthquake felt in USA. This is due to the P-waves.
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Answer by Mathew Cutshall.
P waves are the least damaging and only travel left and right, forward and backward along the horizontal plane. S waves are the most dangerous because they cause up and down motion and travel along the surface and solids of a medium causing the most destructive force. However they do not travel as far as P-waves. This is why earthquakes across the planet are felt on the other side. AKA Japan earthquake felt in USA. This is due to the P-waves.
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Answer by Mathew Cutshall.
Longitudinal Waves
Primary wave- (P-waves) travel through solids liquids and gas. push/pull or compress waves. They travel faster and arive at seismic stations first. Secondary waves-(S-waves) travels ONLY through solids. moves side to side. Gets to the seismic stations second. I hope that helps!!
secondary waves or otherwise known as s-waves
Mechanical wave needs a medium to travel. Examples :- Sound Wave, Seismic Wave etc.
Earthquakes explain and support tectonic plate theory and show the movements of the plates over time. Fault lines also expose rock layers and allow geologists to study the rocks and the changes in the environment over time.An Earthquake gives out Seismic waves which. There are Primary Waves (P-Wave) and Secondary waves (S-Wave) The Secondary Seismic wave can't travel through liquid so when the sensors detect a wave and sees that some part the S-wave isn't going through a layer of the earth they know that that layer of the earth is Liquid.
L Waves (Love Waves)
The type of wave that has the least amount of energy is the longitudinal wave. In contrast, the wave with the most amount of energy is a seismic wave.
A seismograph can locate a seismic wave.
Seismic wave
The fastest wave is the electromagnetic wave. Of the seismic waves, the P-wave is the fastest seismic wave.
You need a shotgun and shoot the wave and that's how you stop a seismic wave
Earthquake waves are called seismic waves.
A shear wave is a type of seismic wave.
a seismic wave
the sound wave
It is possible to have a seismic wave without having an earthquake. Any wave moving through the ground is a seismic wave, and all earthquakes are seismic waves. But seismic waves can be created by volcanic action, landslides, meteor strikes or the like. Though all earthquakes are seismic waves, not all seismic waves are earthquakes.
That would be a P-wave or Primary wave which is a longitudinal seismic wave.