What does a Love wave look like?
A Love wave is a surface wave having a horizontal motion that is transverse (or perpendicular) to the direction the wave is traveling. Answer and Explanation: This question is somewhat misleading as there are no subtypes of Love waves. Rather, Love waves are a subtype of surface wave that travels outward from the epicenter of an earthquake. As a surface wave, it has to travel through shallow rock rather than through deeper layers of the Earth.Love Waves—surface waves that move parallel to the Earth’s surface and perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation. Particle motion consists of alternating transverse motions. Particle motion is horizontal and perpendicular to the direction of propagation (transverse).
What are the effects of Love waves?
Love waves induce horizontal movement of the earth during an earthquake and travel with a slower velocity than P- or S-waves, but faster than Rayleigh waves. Similar to Rayleigh waves, Love waves decay more slowly with an increasing distance along the surface direction than do body waves. Love waves cause more damage than Rayleigh waves, but both are highly destructive because they occur near the surface of the Earth. This means they are more strongly felt at the surface.