| S wave |
A body wave that causes the rocks along which it passes to move up and down perpendicular to the direction of its own movement. See also P wave.
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| S wave |
A seismic wave that involves oscillation of the material perpendicular to the direction in which the wave is traveling. A shear wave can not travel in a liquid or a gas.
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| S wave |
Shear, secondary, rotational, tangential, equivoluminal, distortional, transverse, or shake wave. These waves carry energy through the Earth in very complex patterns of transverse (crosswise) waves. These waves move more slowly than P waves, but in an earthquake they are usually bigger. S waves cannot travel through the outer core because these waves cannot exist in fluids, such as air, water or molten rock.
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