How Love waves travel
Learn about the transmission of Love waves, which travel near the surface of a medium of varying vertical elasticity, causing the medium to move from side to side perpendicular to the direction of propagation.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Both belong to the order Lepidoptera.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The monster flower and the titan arum have been said to smell like rotting flesh.Media Editor: Lauren Sims
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.John Rafferty, associate editor of Earth sciences at Encyclopædia Britannica, discusses the formation of tsunamis.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Seismic waves travel in different patterns and at different speeds through the Earth. The most damaging are the surface types—the Love waves and the Rayleigh waves.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The Richter scale measures the magnitude of earthquakes, and the Mercalli scale measures their intensity.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.We're picking up earthquake vibrations.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The shifting rock in an earthquake causes vibrations called seismic waves that travel within Earth or along its surface. The four main types of seismic waves are P waves, S waves, Love waves, and Rayleigh waves.
