How loud is a scream?

Human screams can be quite loud, possibly exceeding 100 dB (as of March 2019, the world record is 129 dB!)
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How loud is an average scream?

The average decibel level of human speech is estimated between 55 and 65 decibels. A whisper is considered the lowest decibel level of human speech. A whisper is between 20-30 dB. On the other hand, a human scream can reach decibel levels between 80 and 125 dB.
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How loud is the loudest human voice?

'Quietttt!!!

What was the sound? No other than their teacher, who just happens to have the world's loudest shout. Miss Flanagan entered the record books back in 1994 with a thunderous rendition of 'quiet!' The shout clocked up an earth-shattering 121.7 decibels, setting a world record.
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How loud is a human voice?

Normal conversation is about 60 dB. A lawn mower is about 90 dB. And a loud rock concert is about 120 dB. In general, sounds above 85 dB are harmful.
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How far can a scream be heard?

On Earth, the sound from an average scream might travel about three-quarters of a mile, depending on conditions.
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Can you make a 1100 dB sound?

It's not possible as a continuous sound in air because the maximum overpressure is double atmospheric, with the troughs a vacuum, which works out at 194 decibels.
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How loud is a hand clap dB?

[32] measured the levels of acoustic sources and found the handclap to be one with the lowest. In another study by Seetharaman and Tarzia [33], the handclap averaged 26.4 dB above the background level (in a concert hall with typical background noise levels) with a standard deviation of 4.4 dB across measurements.
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How loud is a car horn?

Sound levels of typical car horns are approximately 107–109 decibels, and they typically draw 5–6 amperes of current.
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How loud is a black hole?

With a period of oscillation of 10 million years, the sound waves were acoustically equivalent to a B-flat 57 octaves below middle C, a tone that the black hole has apparently been holding for the last two billion years.
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How loud is the sun?

One heliophysicist crunched the numbers and estimates the noise would be around 110 decibels, or about the same volume as speakers at a rock concert.
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What's the loudest word ever said?

The Belfast primary school teacher bellowed her way into the world record books in 1994 with a thunderous bellow of the word (what else?) 'quiet! '. The shout clocked up an earth-shattering 121.7 decibels, setting a world record and potentially damaging the hearing of anyone within earshot.
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How many decibels is a screaming child?

Most have attributed this reaction on the part of caregivers to frustration and stress. A crying child can expose caregivers and health care providers to sound pressures as high as 120 dB(A), merely 10 dB(A) less than the intensity of noise from an airplane departure.
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What is 85 dB sound like?

85 decibels is a noise or sound level equivalent to that of a food blender, heavy traffic while you are in the car, a noisy restaurant, or a cinema. As you can see, there are plenty of situations in everyday life when we are exposed to high noise levels.
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Is 100dB loud?

Compared to other moderate or loud dB levels (of up to 85 decibels), 100 decibels is considered very loud and dangerous to human hearing. When measuring a sound, a 10 dB increase equals a 10-time increase in the intensity of the sound.
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How loud is a fan?

As you may see in the Fig 1.1, ceiling fans on an average generate between 60dB to 70dB of loudness which has been suggested as good enough noise by many studies.
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How loud is 130dba?

130 dB is extremely loud and equivalent to: a jet take-off. the loudest rock concert ever recorded. a gunshot at close range.
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How many dB is a PC fan?

The measurable noise of a fan is 20 dB (A).
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Why is 194 dB the loudest sound possible?

A note on the loudest possible sound in air

A sound of 194 dB has a pressure deviation of 101.325 kPa, which is ambient pressure at sea level, at 0 degrees Celsius (32 Fahrenheit). Essentially, at 194 dB, the waves are creating a complete vacuum between themselves.
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How loud is a pistol?

Firearms Are Loud

A small . 22-caliber rifle can produce noise around 140 dB, while big-bore rifles and pistols can produce sound over 175 dB.
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How loud is a plane?

The sounds associated with jet planes measure between 120 and 140 decibels. Any sound above 85 decibels has the potential to cause hearing damage, especially with frequent or prolonged exposure.
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How loud is a supernova?

Sounds—which are simply pressure variations in a medium such as air or water—can't propagate in the vacuum of space, so the roiling surface of a star would make an impression on the eyes, but not the ears. A supernova would sound like 10 octillion two-megaton nuclear bombs exploding.
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How loud is space?

Studies on a single space shuttle flight found temporary partial deafness in the crew. Inside the International Space Station (ISS) it is so loud that some fear for the astronauts' hearing. At its worst, the noise level in sleep stations was about the same as in a very noisy office (65 decibels).
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How loud is a black hole collision in dB?

Converting the energy of 1,100 decibels to mass yields 1.113x1080 kg, meaning that the radius of the resulting black hole's event horizon would exceed the diameter of the known universe. Voila!
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