Explore: Surface Waves (seismology)

state. Seismic surface waves travel along the Earth's surface. They can be classified as a form of mechanical surface wave. Surface waves diminish in amplitude

main surface wave types are Rayleigh waves, which have both compressional and shear motions, and Love waves, which are purely shear. Rayleigh waves result

wave is a guided wave that propagates close to the surface of the Earth. In seismology, several types of surface waves are encountered. Surface waves

Rayleigh–Lamb waves, or generalized Rayleigh waves. Rayleigh waves are a type of surface wave that travel near the surface of solids. Rayleigh waves include

on the other side. In seismology, Love waves (also known as Q waves (Quer, lit. "lateral" in German)) are surface seismic waves that cause horizontal

(January 1945a), "Amplitudes of surface Waves and magnitudes of shallow earthquakes" (PDF), Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 35 (1): 3–12

In seismology and other areas involving elastic waves, S waves, secondary waves, or shear waves (sometimes called elastic S waves) are a type of elastic

A P wave (primary wave or pressure wave) is one of the two main types of elastic body waves, called seismic waves in seismology. P waves travel faster

Wind waves in the ocean are also called ocean surface waves and are mainly gravity waves, where gravity is the main equilibrium force. Wind waves have

varicap driven oscillator. In seismology surface acoustic waves could become the most destructive type of seismic wave produced by earthquakes, which