shear wave
Americannoun
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"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
In an earthquake, P waves — or compressional waves — arrive first but usually don’t cause much damage; they’re followed by the S wave, or shear wave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
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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