So I just read/watched the link on the recent solar tsunami and that is some really crazy stuff. According to my envelope calculation, the article says that the tsunami covered 1000000km in half an hour.
I am having ridiculous trouble converting km/hr to ft/sec. According to google calculator, it would be 1822688.83ft/sec. That sounds much more reasonable. My original number of 23622047244000ft/sec was a bit off. (Thanks Thomas) 
That tsunami was traveling pretty darn fast. So, I believe that would be pronounced 1 million 822 thousand 688.83 feet per second. Compared to the fastest tsunami on earth that moves about 911ft/sec I would say that things are a bit faster on the sun.
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I’d say something’s fishy with that math. Pretty sure that would be some 25 million times faster than the speed of light. Looks like the mistake is the kilometers to miles conversion.
Good catch. I didn’t really have time to check my math, but it definitely felt like something was wrong with it.
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