How many decibels is a nuclear bomb?

Nuclear bomb – Explosion
A nuclear bomb explosion has been reported to be 240 to 280 dB+. A sound level meter set 250 feet away from test sites peaked at 210 decibels. At the source, the level is reported to be from 240 to 280 dB+.
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Why is 194 dB the loudest sound possible?

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. You can go louder than 194 dB, but that's not technically a “sound” anymore.
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Would a nuclear bomb be loud?

A nuclear bomb.

Decibel meters set 250 feet away from test sites peaked at 210 decibels. The sound alone is enough to kill a human being, so if the bomb doesn't kill you, the noise will. Fun fact!
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How many decibels is a human scream?

Average Decibel Level of Human Speech

On the other hand, a human scream can reach decibel levels between 80 and 125 dB.
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What is the highest dB ever recorded?

The Krakatoa volcanic eruption: Not only did it cause serious damage to the island, the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 created the loudest sound ever reported at 180 dB. It was so loud it was heard 3,000 miles (5,000 km) away. 3.
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What does a nuclear bomb sound like?



Can we create 1100 dB sound?

You can't add them. You have to add the logarithm. so if 1 atomic bomb is 250 db, 5 atomic bombs exploding simultaneously is 250 + 10*log(5) = 257 dB. so to get 1100 dB, you need to explode 1*10^85 atomic bombs or 1 with 85 zeros on the right.
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How loud is 1100 decibels?

40 decibels is 10 times more powerful than 30 decibels. Each time the decibel number goes up by 10, the power of the sound is multiplied by 10. The number 1100 is like starting with 10 decibels, and adding 10 on 109 times. That means 1100 is 10109 times more powerful than 10 decibels.
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How loud can a dog bark?

Sources of noise in kennels

Sales et al. (1997) have reported that the bark of a single dog can reach 100 dB, and recorded sound levels can range between 85 and 122 dB in kennels. Barking by one dog may become a self- reinforcing behavior and may also stimulate other individuals to vocalize further.
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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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What does a nuke smell like?

Other bombs smell like the materials which cause the explosion, e.g., napalm smells like gasoline and tnt smells like gun powder.
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How loud was the Nagasaki bombing?

The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs of 1945 destroyed cities in an instant – but the Tsar bomb was 3,300 times stronger than that and is considered the strongest sound every produced by mankind, with the most reliable figure suggesting it clocked at 224dB.
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What does a nuke sound like when falling?

Hearing it would have been coincident with having the blast wave hit. The bombs don't make the noise you think they do, though. All of the "booms" you hear on most nuclear test footages are just spliced in generic explosion noises. The actual noises are more like a single loud clap followed by echoes.
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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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How loud is a supernova?

If we suppose that the same fraction of a supernova's energy is converted to sound, and a supernova releases 1044 joules, That means that about 1044/(840 billion) = 1032 Joules of sound energy, thirty-two orders of magnitude greater than 120 dB, or about 440 decibels.
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How loud is a blue whale?

Not only can baleen whales emit calls that travel farther than any other voice in the animal kingdom, these giants of the deep also create the loudest vocalisations of any creature on earth: the call of a blue whale can reach 180 decibels – as loud as a jet plane, a world record.
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What is the loudest animal?

The loudest animal in the world is the blue whale: its vocalisations of up to 188 decibels can be heard 160km away. But as it's also the largest animal, that's only 0.0012dB per kilo of body mass.
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What dog has the strongest bite?

"The Kangal Shepherd is a Turkish breed of dog that is known for its large size and impressive strength. With a bite force of 743 PSI, this breed is the undisputed king of the canine world when it comes to raw power.
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What is the quietest dog to have?

Quiet dog breed #1: Basenji

The basenji is known as the “barkless dog,” probably due to the unusual shape of their larynx that may make it virtually impossible to bark.
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How loud is an F1 car in dB?

F1 cars are very loud, putting out sound levels of around 130 decibels. This is louder than the average thunder clap, but it's not as loud as the F1 engines of the past. The V8 F1 engines for example put out sound of around 145 decibels, which is much louder than current F1 cars.
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How many iphones is 85 decibels?

85 dB: Around 1 hour and 45 minutes a day. 90 dB: Around 30 minutes a day. 95 dB: Just 10 minutes a day. 100 dB: Even a few minutes a day.
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How loud is a sonic boom in decibels?

Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy, about 110 decibels, like the sound of an explosion or a thunderclap. Through the unique design of the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) airplane, NASA aims to reduce the sonic boom to make it much quieter.
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How loud is a black hole collision in dB?

But that number that is considerably smaller than the energy created by 1,100 decibels of sound. 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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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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What is the sound of black hole?

For the first time in history, earthlings can hear what a black hole sounds like: a low-pitched groaning, as if a very creaky heavy door was being opened again and again.
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