Why Is It Called Love Wave
Of the Two Surface Seismic Waves, Love Waves—Named After the British Seismologist A. E. H. Love, Who First Predicted Their Existence—Travel Faster. They Are...
Of the two surface seismic waves, Love waves—named after the British seismologist A.E.H. Love, who first predicted their existence—travel faster. They are propagated when the solid medium near the surface has varying vertical elastic properties.
What does Love wave mean?
A Love wave is a surface wave having a horizontal motion that is transverse (or perpendicular) to the direction the wave is traveling. (Image courtesy of European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology)
What type of wave is Love wave?
In elastodynamics, Love waves, named after Augustus Edward Hough Love, are horizontally polarized surface waves. The Love wave is a result of the interference of many shear waves (S-waves) guided by an elastic layer, which is welded to an elastic half space on one side while bordering a vacuum on the other side.
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