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The importance of seismic wave research lies not only in our ability to understand and predict
earthquakes and tsunamis, it also reveals information on the Earth's composition and features in
much the same way as it led to the discovery of Mohorovicic's discontinuity.

2. Because they can only travel on the surface of the earth, while the body wave (which is used for
studying waves) can travel through the inner part of the earth. And they are also destructive, and
they only travel at surfaces, not deep within.

3. These waves contain vital information about the internal structure of the Earth. As seismic waves
pass through the Earth, they are refracted, or bent, like rays of light bend when they pass through a
glass prism. Both P- and S-waves from earthquakes travel through the mantle, demonstrating that it
is solid. Seismologists study shock, or seismic, waves as they travel through the Earth's interior.
Seismic waves tell us that the Earth's interior consists of a series of concentric shells, with a thin
outer crust, a mantle, a liquid outer core, and a solid inner core.