Question

How is a car horn like an earthquake? How is it different? Which of the waves associated with an earthquake is most similar to that of a bus horn?

Answer 1

A car horn and an Earthquake both are the different things in their own place and both occur in its own way but the feeling of an earthquake can be compared with the car horn, because of the structure of the horn or we can say that the structure of the speaker, the innermost structure is made of the aluminium particle and the power of that speaker is very high but due to the low frequency in the speaker and the shaking power can be increased more and more and this is the reason behind a car is like an earthquake.

It is different on the basis of the structure of the plates, because the plate inside the earth is the tectonic plate and the of the speaker is made up of the aluminium particle and this is the basic difference between these two things, and both reacts in its own way.

An earthquake has the seismic wave (S-wave) which results as a shaking of the earth when an earthquake comes, but there is another wave which is related to the speaker and that is the sound wave which work as an earthquake by spreading the sound with more bass, more power, with the low frequency which results as a more shaking power of the speaker.so, we can say that the S- wave is associated with an earthquake which can be similar to a bus horn.