P and S waves on a slinky

Cambridge Volcano Seismology · 280K views · 2016 · 0:22

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Demonstrates P and S seismic waves using a slinky to illustrate how earthquake energy travels through the Earth.

Linked by 2 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ethz.ch, copernicus.org.