It travels at the speed of sound, which varies at different altitudes.
Shockwave can be fast, but you'll need a fast computer. Heres the link = http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/
the shockwave goes over mach 1 so get your running shoes on
The shockwave of an atomic bomb starts at about 184 Km/s or Mach 540! It slows fairly rapidly from that.
get.adobe.com/shockwave
Use something like VNC or Windows Remote Desktop to access a computer that *does* have the Shockwave plugin installed. I've used this, for example, to access iSketch from my HP Touchpad, a system for which there is no Shockwave plugin available. Note that you need a reliably fast connection on both ends for this to be practical, however.
shockwave
Adobe Shockwave animation, made in Adobe Director. Originally Macromedia Shockwave and later Shockwave Flash (Flash was acquired by Macromedia from FutureWave Software).
roughly 50,000 meters per second at the moment of detonation. it quickly slows to subsonic speeds.
NWA Shockwave ended in 2007.
The Shockwave Rider was created in 1975.
Syracuse Shockwave was created in 2011.
Shockwave - Dreamworld - was created in 2011.
NWA Shockwave was created in 2001.