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Posted: January 8, 2011 03:14 am  | |||
     IRC Nickname: Group: Guest Posts: 23 Member No.: 2528 Joined: January 6, 2011 Total Events Attended: 0    | Anyone who needs help with Geology questions. I here to offer my services. Im a geo minor and T.A. at CSU. I can do my best to help you if you get stuck on a question. -------------------- | ||
Posted: January 9, 2011 08:16 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Matt|Georgio9 Group: Emeritus Posts: 706 Member No.: 94 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | Describe the difference between P and S waves as they travel through the Earth. --------------------   | ||
Posted: January 11, 2011 06:22 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Ret[Keith] Group: Emeritus Posts: 2049 Member No.: 86 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 82 | I'm pretty sure S waves are the slower waves and come after P waves. P waves are longitudinal (when they cross the earth, the waves are compressional like if you take a stretched out slinky and pushed it forward without taking it off the ground), and S waves go side to side, like a snake slithering. Since P waves are faster (speed of soundish), they reach stations before the S waves (half as fast). This delay in time allows geologists to pinpoint the epicenter and then the hypocenter of an earthquake (directly below epicenter) So the difference is: S waves = slow, side to side P waves = fast, compressional there are also Raleigh and Love waves, but those are a different story. I'm a geology major   -------------------- Best Firemaker in WG no lie   <--- rofl1st joined WG: October 18th, 2005. Ex-WG mod, OPH winner  ^My original idea (U GOIN DOWN TWIZ)^ 189th person to get "100" firemaking Hash Unit, Tun Unit, C-Unit    | ||
Posted: January 11, 2011 11:41 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Guest Posts: 23 Member No.: 2528 Joined: January 6, 2011 Total Events Attended: 0 | You forgot something that greatly shows the difference between p and s waves. What cant go through what? There is also surface waves that no one brought up =P. -------------------- | ||
Posted: January 11, 2011 11:43 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Guest Posts: 23 Member No.: 2528 Joined: January 6, 2011 Total Events Attended: 0 | Also the fault plane itself help locate the epicenter and focus =P -------------------- | ||
Posted: January 14, 2011 07:50 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: Ret[Keith] Group: Emeritus Posts: 2049 Member No.: 86 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 82 |
Well surface waves are the raleigh and love waves, and s waves can't go through water. Now georgio is a master! -------------------- Best Firemaker in WG no lie <--- rofl1st joined WG: October 18th, 2005. Ex-WG mod, OPH winner ^My original idea (U GOIN DOWN TWIZ)^ 189th person to get "100" firemaking Hash Unit, Tun Unit, C-Unit | ||
Posted: January 17, 2011 02:03 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: Matt|Georgio9 Group: Emeritus Posts: 706 Member No.: 94 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | You forgot to mention that S waves cause the majority of damage due to the way they travel... I had to take a geology course in first year university...that was 3 years ago. It almost convinced me to go into geological engineering but someone ended up in electrical engineering. You have to smoke a lot of pot to go into geo. Even the profs do it on field trips. -------------------- | ||
Posted: January 19, 2011 03:04 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Ret[Keith] Group: Emeritus Posts: 2049 Member No.: 86 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 82 |
I think surface waves do the most - but yeah geo is mad nice - my profs seem like they might be doin' some stuff -------------------- Best Firemaker in WG no lie <--- rofl1st joined WG: October 18th, 2005. Ex-WG mod, OPH winner ^My original idea (U GOIN DOWN TWIZ)^ 189th person to get "100" firemaking Hash Unit, Tun Unit, C-Unit | ||
Posted: January 26, 2011 09:00 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: fbi3255 Group: Emeritus Posts: 800 Member No.: 1776 Joined: March 21, 2009 Total Events Attended: 143 | Im pro economics and ancient history so ill be around if anyone needs halp. --------------------   | ||
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