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Name: | body waves |
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Description: | Body waves are one of the two main types of seismic waves.Body waves can travel through the earth's inner layers.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.There are two kinds of body waves, Primary waves and Secondary waves. |
Type: | Noun |
Term is: | Variable | Term has: | | Term unit: | m | |