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Converting starting wave to known max wave height
in our university project, we are developing a tsunami simulation using the Shallow Water Equations. For our project, we have decided to allow users to enter an epicentre and the magnitude of an ...
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Are seismic waves and shock waves same?
Are shock waves (those produced by high speed jets) and seismic waves (produced during earthquake) the same?
In many places I have seen seismic waves referred to as shock waves. So are these two same?
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Understanding Snells Law in seismic waves
This is a homework question, Ill say it upfront.
The Problem is given so:
Earthquake causes a wave that meets a boundary between two rock substances. Incoming wave speed is 25 m/s and angle is 9 ...
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Is there a subterranean SOFAR channel?
After discovering the SOFAR channel in water at a depth which the speed of sound is at its minimum and acts as a waveguide, it was postulated that a similar channel existed in the atmosphere and ...
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Better to stay in the open or in the water during an earthquake?
I tried looking around on google but couldn't really find any good information.
For arguments sake, say I am in a field with a river intersecting it. If an earthquake occurs and I am near the ...
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Question about the difference between a tsunami caused by a meteorite and one caused by an under water earthquake
Picture the situation where a meteorite falls somewhere on one of our oceans and gives off all its kinetic energy to the water (let's ignore the thermal energies involved like, for example, the heat ...
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Why don't p-type seismic waves propagate along straight lines in the lower mantle?
Can you tell me why seismic waves (p-type shock wave) passing through the earth's lower mantle don't propagate along straight lines in particular?
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About EarthQuake?
As you know in Nepal many aftershocks are coming and earthquake is related to physics as earthquake is also a longitudinal waves . I have some series of question as well as my thoughts about it?
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How does a longer wavelength penetrate deeper with Rayleigh waves?
I'm struggling slightly to understand this idea. I've slowly been building up an explanation, so at this stage it might be just some confirmation I'm looking for, but also some guidance if I'm off ...
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How does one explain this pattern generated by earthquake waving driving a pendulum?
How to explain this pattern generated by earthquake wave driving a pendulum? Specially, there are three groups of curves that look categorically different:
1) The group of curves outside the olive-...
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