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Potential energy is transformed into seismic waves during an earthquake :)

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in a earthquake, sesimic waves travel from the epicenter that travels around it causing the structures there to fall down

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primary and secondary waves aka p and s waves

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Q: What do you call the waves of energy formed by an earthquake?
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