Body Wave 09
Body Wave 09 : Waves that propagate through the interior of a body are called body waves, as opposed to surface waves, which propagate along the boundary surface of a body. In seismology, the Earth is usually considered an infinite, linear elastic and homogeneous continuum. In such a medium there exist only two basic types of seismic body waves with different polarization: (1) dilatational (or longitudinal) P wave and (2) translational (shear) S wave (See:Chapter 2 in this Manual)
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