And Never Never Forget.

Waves are Lazy.

They Bend into the direction of the slowest velocity.

Or so I understand.




-----Original Message----- 
From: Dave Nelson 
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 2:14 AM 
To: psnlist@.............. 
Subject: Re: Speed of P waves 


Ahhhh but they didnt travel the 5,000 around the earth's surface
The P and S waves took a more direct path through the earth significantly 
lowering
  the path length  :)

Dave


At 11:28 AM 12/03/2011, you wrote:
>If the waves took 12 minutes to travel 5,000 miles from Japan to 
>California, that's 25,000 mph.
>But I read that P waves travel only 5 to 8 kps.
>How did the seismic waves get here so fast?
>Bryan Mumford

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