From: Gary Britt 

Bigger explosion, much higher density of the material that the wave is
flying through would be my guess.

Gary

Geo wrote:
> "Mark"  wrote in message
news:45808eb5{at}w3.nls.net...
>> "... a large solar flare from an Earth-sized sunspot
produced... The solar
>> tsunami spread at nearly one million kilometers per hour, and circled the
>> entire Sun in a matter of minutes"
>
> It travels at 600,000 mph? P waves only travel at 6-7km/s or about 25,000
> kilometers per hour (fastest seismic waves on earth)
>
> http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/PamelaSpiegel.shtml
>
> Wonder why it's so much faster on the sun?
>
> Geo.
>
>

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