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S wave (Secondary wave) is a propagation of shear deformation that arrives at earthquake observation stations after (second to) the Primary body wave (P wave, see Sect. 4.2). Since S wave generates a significant magnitude of horizontal motion at the ground surface, it is considered to be the most important cause of seismic damage.
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Towhata, I. (2008). Wave Propagation in Elastic Medium. In: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35783-4_4
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