'First Motion'

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First Motion

Sunday, January 05, 2014

6:00 PM

first motion: on a seismogram, the direction of motion at the beginning of the arrival of a P wave. Conventionally, upward motion indicates a compression of the ground; downward motion, a dilatation.

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Created: 2014-01-05
Updated: 2014-01-05