mateo had just finished settings up his new seismograph when an earth quake occured. after he made sure that nothing had broken,he noticed that the seismograph had drawn three sets of waves he knew that diffrent types of waves traveld through or along the surface of earth in which order do the waves travel from fastest to slowest

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