The diagrams show what happens when P waves and S waves pass through the Earth. S waves do not pass through the Earth's core S waves cannot pass through the liquid outer core, but P waves can.

These waves are higher frequency than surface waves. P waves are also known as compressional waves, because they push and pull. Particles subjected to a P wave move in the same direction that the wave ...

There are three types of seismic waves – P waves, S waves and surface waves. P waves are longitudinal waves, and their relative speed is faster than other waves. P waves can travel through ...

Therefore, the earliest solid scientific advances in seismology concerned earthquake waves. As discussed in Lesson 5, earthquakes occur when elastic energy is accumulated slowly within the Earth's ...