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8.2 How do earthquakes help make images of Earth's interior?

The earth and how earthquake waves provide information about the interior.

Careful measurements of waves traveling through Earth show that the waves travel faster through some portions than through others, especially through surface materials versus interior rock. This means that physical properties of surface rock are different from deeper rock.

Fig 8.12