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The Love and Rayleigh waves (collectively known as surface waves) are the slowest moving but most damaging of the seismic waves.
The Rayleigh wave EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica, Inc. earthquakes: types of seismic waves Seismic waves travel in different patterns and at different speeds through the Earth. The most damaging are the surface typesâthe Love waves and the Rayleigh waves. EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica, Inc. Learn about this topic in these articles: characteristics. In seismic wave â¦principal surface waves are called Rayleigh waves after the British physicist Lord Rayleigh, who first mathematically demonstrated their existence.