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You can see kind of the build-up leading towards the earthquake and then you can see this big jolt, or this primary wave, the p-wave and then what happens after.
CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Earthquake Hits the Pacific Northwest - February 28, 2001 2001
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Well, as I mentioned, the subduction zone, that is this plate that goes under this North American plate, and we get that initial jolt, that p-wave and then the s-wave, the secondary wave, and that's where we start to see most of the damage.
CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Earthquake Hits the Pacific Northwest - February 28, 2001 2001
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Indeed, there seemed to be some question as to whether or not these new phases were all p-wave BCS states.
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In particular, Dick Werthamer was in the audience, and he had done early work on the p-wave BCS state soon to be associated with the
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Seismic Survey and Modeling - Li3 has selected Geophysical Exploration & Consulting S.A. to perform a high resolution p-wave seismic refraction tomography survey.
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Our proprietary Diogenes algorithm employs rate, rhythm, morphology, and p-wave information making it the most comprehensive ambulatory ECG analysis available.www. medicompinc.com
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The test showed that after an earthquake, four to six monitoring stations recorded features of the p-wave within seven seconds after the quake had struck.
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Seismic wave can travel through gases, elastic solids, and liquids, including the Earth. Can be produced by earthquakes and recorded by seismometers. This primary wave is faster than the S-wave. Discovery of the speed increase of p-waves across Lehmann Discontinuity suggests Earth has a solid core.
April 23, 2009