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Q: Is a earthquake s wave a transverse wave?
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What is a transverse wave associated with an earthquake and which cannot move through liquid?

The Secondary or S-wave is a transverse wave associated with earthquakes that can not pass through liquids.


Is an earthquake a transverse wave or a longitudinal wave?

Earthquakes generate both transverse and longitudinal waves.


Is an earthquake wave a longitudinal ver a transverse wave?

It can be either.


Which type of wave has both transverse and longitudinal characteristics?

Earthquake wave.


What transverse wave is the first to reach the location of an earthquake?

P wave


Transverse and longitudinal waves both?

Quaternion waves, e.g. earthquake wave, P and S waves..


How do transverse waves and longitudinal waves differ?

Longitudinal Wave:The oscillation is is parallel to the direction of wave travel.Example:sound, spring,"P_type" earthquake waveTransverse Waves:The Oscillation is perpendicular to the direction of wave travel.Example:radio or light waves , string, "S-type", earthquake waves.


What is the transverse wave that is the second to reach the location of an earthquake?

These are known as the seismic waves or the s waves. They will reach the earthquake location second after the first shock.


Is s waves transverse waves?

'S' is a common designator which refers to a transverse body wave.


Give an example of a logitudinal and transverse wave?

Sound waves and Primary Earthquake waves are longitudinal.


What wave is partly longitudinal and partly transverse?

Earthquake waves , electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves..


What Longitudinal wave that is first to reach the location of an earthquake?

Transverse