P-Wave Traveling Through the Earth?

Honestly, if a pressure wave were strong enough to survive traveling through the absorption of rock, mantle, magma, and the core, then I think the earth would be in some seriously trouble and, to a greater extent, so would we.

Sound wave speed depends on the elastic modulus of a medium and its density. Square of the velocity is directly proportional to modulus and inversely proportional to the density. In a rock with a particular density, the P-wave speed is controlled by the P-wave modulus whereas, Shear-wave speed is controlled by the shear modulus. Rocks have P-wave modulus greater than Shear modulus. So, P-waves from an earthquake travels faster. In one of the answers here, someone mentioned that velocity of the compressional (P) wave to be ~ 13-17 km/s. I would say that this is quite on the higher side. Although there is a lot of uncertainty about it, a very rough estimate is as follows: Crust: upto 7 km/s Upr Mantle: 8 - 11 km/s Lr Mantle: 11 - 14 km/s Outer core: 7 - 10 km/s Inner core: 13-14 km/s Moreover, the ratio of P- to S-wave velocity does not remain constant. It varies with rock type as well as any melt present in it.

The time travel depend upon how far you are from focus point. Here is the characters of all waves.

Mainly there are 4 types of waves generated by earthquakes.

1. Primary wave or compression wave. The speed of this wave will be in the order of 13 to 17 km per second

This wave will travel through all mediums like solids, semisolids and liquids. This will make the particles of the earth to expand and compress .The strength of this wave will be about one tenth of secondary wave. Therefore we may not feel it. Somebody may feel giddiness. Only the instruments will sense these waves. It will move the particles in the direction of its propagation..

2. Secondary wave travels about half of the speed of primary wave. The correct ratio is 1.7 :1 This causes the earth to move in perpendicular to the direction of its propagation. The shaking will be felt by human. This wave will not travel through liquids. This is also called body waves.

The above 2 waves are generated from the point called focus. That is the point where the earthquake starts. Therefore these waves are called body waves.

3. Love wave the name of the person found the wave. This is generated at the surface of the earth due to reflection and refraction of the body waves. This will generate only lateral movements. This will cause the waters to move in sideways. The water in small tanks and ponds will spill out and will become muddy.

4. Rayleigh wave most dangerous of all .These waves comes at last which generates rolling movement of the earth.

These two waves are called surface waves.

The shaking during earthquake will be about 1mm to 70 mm for ordinary earthquakes and it may go up to 240 mm in extraordinary cases.

The Richter scale 3 will shake the earth for 0.1 mm if it is measured at a distance of 100 km from epicenter. This shaking will increase by ten fold for each Richter scale and reduce by inverse square of distance.

P waves, travel fastest, at speeds between 1.5 and 8 kilometers per second in the Earth's crust.

P waves travel at a velocity of about 6.1 km/s... that means that they travel about 10km in 1.6 seconds. I'm not sure what you mean by traveling though the earth.. it depends on the location/distance from the focus.