e.g. Earthquake (SURFACE WAVES)

Question 1

a lower frequency than body waves

Answer 1

surface waves

Question 2

Though they arrive after body waves, it is _________ that are almost entirely responsible for the damage and destruction associated with earthquakes.

Answer 2

surface waves (2)

Question 3

move transverse to the direction of the propagation but with no vertical motion.

They cause rock to move horizontally or side to side at right angles to the direction of the travelling wave.

Named after Augustus Edward Hough Love, a British mathematician who worked out the mathematical model for this kind of wave on 1911.

Moves the ground from side to side

Answer 3

love waves

Question 4

also called ground roll, cause rock particles to move upward, up, backward, and down in path that contains the direction of the wave travel.

Most of the shaking felt from an earthquake is due to the Rayleigh wave, which can be much larger than the other waves.

Named for John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, who mathematically predicted the existence of this kind of wave in 1885.

Answer 4

rayleigh waves