GEOL 106 Lecture Notes - Telephone Numbers In The United Kingdom, Waves, Lightning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
• Course: GEOL 106
• Professor: Prof.

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Hazard city: for now, peruse the map reading exercise, introduction, basic map reading, reading topographic maps, plateau map, (nothing needs to be handed in) Hazard city: first assignment will be on earthquakes, details given later. How do we find the focus of an earthquake: in other words how far away is the earthquake, we first need to know what seismic waves are and how they behave. Seismic waves: seismic energy waves radiate out from the focus of an earthquake as body waves, some body waves motion gets transformed into surface. Wave motion when the body waves reach surface: surface waves generally cause the most damage at surface, love waves move side to side across the land, rayleigh waves are rotational waves , circular motion horizontal. Let us consider the body waves in more detail: there are two kinds, p-waves : push-pull (compress rarefaction, s-waves : shear (up and down)