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That's very fast and it's all because of how deep the water is (thousands of feet) and how much energy the earthquake puts into the tidal wave. So now to directly answer your question, the amount of time it takes for a tsunami to come after an earthquake occurs can be as little as 5 minutes or as long as 24 hours. It just depends on how far away the earthquake was from the coast.
Where the ocean is over 6,000 meters (3.7 miles) deep, unnoticed tsunami waves can travel at the speed of a commercial jet plane, over 800 km per hour (500 miles per hour). Tsunamis travel much slower in shallower coastal waters where their wave heights begin to increase dramatically. tsunami generally consists of a series of waves, often referred to as the tsunami wave train. The amount of time between successive waves, known as the wave period, is only a few minutes; in some instances, waves are over an hour apart.