Jul 11, 2014. 1  Summertime is wedding time, so to commemorate the season, Spotify looked at thousands of wedding-themed playlists to determine the 10 most popular first dance songs. So, not a totally scientific round-up, but the results do seem to be pretty accurate based on our own not-so-scientific assessments.
Surface waves (e.g. Rayleigh waves, Love waves) that produce vertical motion of the ground surface produce the most damage during an earthquake.
Most of the damage buildings suffer during an earthquake is due to the ground shaking back and forth. Many houses, particularly older ones, were not built to withstand this shaking caused by earthquakes. Some houses are more resilient than others in an earthquake.