It depends on the wind direction. The waves may be straight on to the shore, or hit the shore at an angle.
Waves usually arrive at the beach from the open ocean, which is typically from the direction of prevailing winds. The specific direction of wave arrival can vary depending on the geography and orientation of the coastline.
Secondary waves, also known as S-waves, are seismic waves that arrive after primary waves (P-waves) during an earthquake. They are slower than P-waves and travel through the Earth by causing particles to move in a perpendicular motion to the direction of wave propagation.
The long shore current will typically flow parallel to the beach in a northeast or southeast direction following the direction of the incoming waves from the southwest. This current is generated as the waves push water along the shoreline, causing a movement of water in the same direction as the wave approach.
P waves arrive first.
Then, if they don't arrive from the direction perpendicular to the interface, they are refracted.
Yes.
Secondary waves.
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The fastest seismic waves, P-waves, will arrive first at a seismograph station after an earthquake. P-waves are compressional waves that can travel through both solids and liquids, allowing them to arrive at a station before the slower S-waves and surface waves.
they really don't all arrive directly on shore, and in the deep sea they tend to radiate outward from areas of high winds, storms, but three things produce the effect you are noticing, 1. wave producing storms are more common far away from land, so waves tend to travel toward land. 2. cross shore waves will be greatly reduced by 'dragging' along the coast, dissipated or scattered back out to sea, so most waves will be at a steep angle to the coast. 3. the waves you see are the result of much longer and shallower ( and faster ) waves being 'hunched' by running up a sloping sea bed, so on a given beach only the waves from a certain direction will be best 'hunched' up, the others will be long and shallow and unnoticed, and the slope is pretty fixed and locally onshore. Notice that clean 'glassy' waves, result from far away storms, less cross swell, and that, certain beaches produce the biggest waves only for a particular direction of deep swell, and also that as a deep swell generating storm, moving in the prevailing direction, will produce the best waves on a predictable sequence of beaches.
Secondary waves.
No, surface waves are typically the last seismic waves to arrive at a seismic facility. They travel more slowly than body waves (P and S waves) and arrive after the initial shaking caused by the faster body waves.