In this lesson, students learn about different types of seismic waves on the basis of where and ... anywhere across the area of slip. Therefore, all the energy of an earthquake is not always ...

The core itself consists of a solid inner core and a liquid outer core. There are three types of seismic waves – P waves, S waves and surface waves. P waves are longitudinal waves, and their ...

Traditionally, scientists have relied on seismic waves generated by earthquakes to infer the structure of the Earth.

Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...