shear wave
Americannoun
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Traditionally, it was thought that the rupturing of a fault moved slower than another type of damaging seismic wave, known as a shear wave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
"It breaks the shear wave speed barrier in the rocks and produces destructive waves that are stronger than what's generated by a normal earthquake," he said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025
This layer appears to glide over a weaker region below called the asthenosphere, characterized by high seismic attenuation and low shear wave velocity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2023
Instead, it's the shear wave, aka S wave, that people usually feel during an earthquake.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2019
Such a wave is called a transverse wave or shear wave; in such a wave, the disturbance is perpendicular to the direction of propagation.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
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