Tsunami Travel Times 150 180 210 240 270 Figure 10.31 Each faint concentric circle in this figure represents a travel time of 30 minutes for the 2011 tsunami. Waves 2 meters (6.6 feet) high struck parts of the coast of Chile 17,000 kilometers (11,000 miles away). The red dots indicate the positions of sensing buoys like that shown in Figure 10.37. NOAANWSWest Coast and Alaska Tanami Warning Center

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