Traveling through the interior of the Earth, body waves arrive before the surface waves emitted by an earthquake. These waves are higher frequency than surface waves. P waves are also known as ...

Understanding the Earthquake's Impact On a fateful day, Myanmar experienced an earthquake registering 7.7 on the Richter scale, claiming the lives of at least 144 individuals and injuring more than ...

The earliest scientists first observed the waves that earthquakes produce before they could accurately describe the nature of earthquakes or their fundamental causes, as discussed in Lessons 1–5.