Because P waves are the fastest seismic waves, they will usually be the first ones that your seismograph records. The next set of seismic waves on your seismogram will be the S waves. These are ...

The P waves (the fastest traveling waves), S waves, and Surface waves which commonly produce the highest wave amplitudes. On this seismogram, you might see local earthquakes in the northeast United ...

The researchers noted that the earthquake's coda waves—the signature of residual vibrations at the end of a seismogram—lasted ... "extra" P-wave phase, in addition to the normal initial ...