How can i describe the difference between the 3 types of waves.?
If you’re talking about types of deformation, there are three: Relaxed Stessed Released / Elastic Rebound Ah, if you’re talking about seismic waves, there are four, not three. The four are divided into two types. Body, and Surface. Body waves: Traveling through the interior of the earth, body waves arrive before the surface waves emitted by an earthquake. These waves are of a higher frequency than surface waves. P-Wave — The first kind of body wave is the P wave or primary wave. This is the fastest kind of seismic wave, and, consequently, the first to ‘arrive’ at a seismic station. The P wave can move through solid rock and fluids, like water or the liquid layers of the earth. It pushes and pulls the rock it moves through just like sound waves push and pull the air. Have you ever heard a big clap of thunder and heard the windows rattle at the same time? The windows rattle because the sound waves were pushing and pulling on the window glass much like P waves push and pull on rock. Some
