AS the Australian contingent in Boston prepares to leave the shell-shocked city, the global hunt for the terrorist, or terrorists, responsible for detonating the two bombs packed with nails, pellets and other sharp objects at the marathon finish line continues.
Three people died, including eight-year-old Boston boy Martin Richard, and 176 were wounded on Monday, but it appears the many Australians competing or standing in the crowd escaped injury.
Dr George Velmahos, trauma chief at Massachusetts General Hospital, said his staff did not treat any Australians.
"As far as I know, all of them are Americans," Dr Velmahos told reporters.
There were 153 Australians registered to compete in what is America's oldest and most prestigious marathon, with many more family members and friends scattered along the route, but so far Australian consular staff in the US have not found Australian victims.
Australia's two-time gold medal-winning Paralympian Kurt Fearnley, who finished fifth in the Boston Marathon wheelchair race, remained defiant and is expected to compete in Sunday's London Marathon.
"Thanks for all of the notes," Fearnley Tweeted on Monday.
"Thoughts are with those who are injured and lost family.
"Off to London today.
"Love this race and feel for its people."
Two other prominent Australians who ran the marathon on Sunday, Gill Stapleton, head of Special Olympics Australia, and Helen Carmody, principal of exclusive Victorian girls' private school, Toorak College, said they would continue their US visit on Tuesday with a trip to New York.
No arrests have been made, but US President Barack Obama vowed to bring the terrorist, or terrorists, to justice.
"What we don't know however is who carried out this attack, or why, whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organisation, foreign or domestic, or was the act of a malevolent individual," he said.
The search for answers and perpetrators will be global.
"This will be a worldwide investigation," Boston's FBI special agent in charge, Rick Deslauriers, told reporters.
"We will go where the evidence and leads take us.
"We will go to the ends of the Earth to identify the subject, or subjects, who are responsible for this despicable crime."
Authorities initially said they did not believe the bombs were packed with ball bearings or other sharp material aimed at causing severe injuries, but this was contradicted by two of Boston's top doctors who treated the many victims.
"There are a variety of sharp objects we found in their bodies," Dr Velmahos said.
"We removed pellets and nails."
Dr Ron Walls, an emergency physician from Brigham and Women's Hospital, said small ball bearings and nails were found embedded in victims.
"Clearly they were designed to be projectiles that were built into the device," he said.
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