verb (used with object) 1. to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill. 2. to draw or tug at with force. 3. to rend or tear: to pull a cloth to pieces.
The Love and Rayleigh waves (collectively known as surface waves) are the slowest moving but most damaging of the seismic waves.
During an earthquake seismic waves race out from the focus in all directions (like a pebble thrown in a pond, an earthquake produces vibrations called waves). Seismic waves carry energy from an earthquake away from the focus, through Earth's interior, and across the surface.