GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -One kind of surface wave is called a Love wave, named after British mathematician A. E. H. Love, who worked out the mathematical model for this wave type in 1911. Love waves produce entirely horizontal motion.

Detailed explanation-2: -In seismology, Love waves (also known as Q waves (Quer: German for lateral)) are surface seismic waves that cause horizontal shifting of the Earth during an earthquake. Augustus Edward Hough Love predicted the existence of Love waves mathematically in 1911.

Detailed explanation-3: -It’s thanks to a pioneering scientist named Inge Lehmann-who would have turned 127 today-that scientists know that inner core exists. According to the American Museum of Natural History, Lehmann made her discovery while studying a type of seismic shock wave called Primary waves, or P-waves.

Detailed explanation-4: -Augustus Edward Hough Love, (born April 17, 1863, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England-died June 5, 1940, Oxford), British geophysicist and mathematician who discovered a major type of seismic wave that was subsequently named for him.

Detailed explanation-5: -Love and Rayleigh waves Some earthquake waves move only along the surface of the earth. Love waves shake the surface side-to-side. Rayleigh waves move the surface of the earth around in a circle, forward and down then back and up. This is the same as the motion in an ocean wave.