What is the loudest place on Earth?

The Loudest Cities In The World
  • Kolkata, India. ...
  • Cairo, Egypt. ...
  • New York City, United States. ...
  • Delhi, India. ...
  • Tokyo, Japan. ...
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
  • Shanghai, China. ...
  • Karachi, Pakistan. With five million vehicles on the road, it's no wonder that traffic is the main cause of noise pollution in Karachi.
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What is the loudest thing on Earth?

The Loudest Sound, Naturally

The loudest sound in recorded history came from the volcanic eruption on the Indonesian island Krakatoa at 10.02 a.m. on August 27, 1883.
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What are the top 5 loudest sounds on Earth?

The 5 loudest sounds in the world
  1. Blue whale.
  2. Space shuttle. ...
  3. NHRA Dragsters. ...
  4. Fireworks. A fireworks explosion is already loud when you stand on the ground and it explodes in the air, but the explosion itself produces about 140-150 dB. ...
  5. Ambulance. Sirens of an ambulance can produce up to 120 dB. ...
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Which country is the loudest in bed?

A country known for its pulsating samba rhythms and its rowdy Carnival street parties, Brazil's citizens are also now considered the loudest in bed.
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Which is the loudest language?

Some languages, notably Spanish and French are spoken at a higher syllable rate per minute than English. Quite often it is because it takes more syllables to get an idea across in these languages than in English. This makes them sound louder.
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Which culture is the quietest?

The top three loudest nations were the Americans, the Italians, and the Spanish. The Japanese were ranked as the quietest.
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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 atomic 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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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 can a human yell?

Human screams can be quite loud, possibly exceeding 100 dB (as of March 2019, the world record is 129 dB!) —but you probably want to avoid that because screams that loud can hurt your ears! You should also have found sound levels drop off quickly as you get farther from the source.
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What is the quietest sound?

Typically, zero decibels sound pressure level (SPL) corresponds to 0.000002 Pascals — a measure of vibration or pressure waves that we really hear. So then, zero decibels is the smallest level of sound our ears can detect!
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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 the moon?

However, the Moon is in space, and space is mostly a vacuum (there are always some atoms floating around, but they are VERY far apart and don't interact with one another). Thus there is no sound on the Moon.
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Do black holes make sound?

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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How loud would a supernova be?

A supernova would sound like 10 octillion two-megaton nuclear bombs exploding.
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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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Can you survive a nuclear blast in a refrigerator?

“The odds of surviving that refrigerator — from a lot of scientists — are about 50-50,” Lucas said.
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What would a nuke sound like?

It is jarring to hear. The boom is more like a shotgun than a thunderclap, and it's followed by a sustained roar. Here's one example, from a March 1953 test at Yucca Flat, the nuclear test site in the Nevada desert.
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Can we create 1100 dB?

Apparently, a sound of 1,100 decibels would create so much energy, it would act as a immensely high quantity of mass. This would, in turn, create enough gravity to form an extremely large black hole! Larger, in fact, than our observable universe.
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Did NASA record a black hole?

NASA has released an audio recording of a black hole. Recorded by the agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the recording is of pressure waves sent out by the black hole within the Perseus galaxy cluster, which causes ripples in the cluster's hot gas.
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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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Is there any place that is absolutely quiet?

The quietest place on earth, an anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota, is so quiet that the longest anybody has been able to bear it is 45 minutes. Inside the room it's silent. So silent that the background noise measured is actually negative decibels, -9.4 dBA.
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What does silence mean in China?

In China, silence is often used to indicate agreement and receptiveness. In Asian cultures silence can often be a sign of respect. If an Asian person asks a question, it is considered polite for the listener to pause to consider the answer – even if they know the answer immediately.
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What cultures speak loudly?

Loud and expressive speech is often more common in African American, Caribbean, Latino, an Arab cultures. Some American Indian cultures, Alaskan native, and Latin American indigenous cultures favor softer tones of voice and less expressive speech, as do some East Asian cultures.
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Is there sound on Mars?

They determined that sound travels 100 meters per second slower on Mars than on Earth. In addition, the researchers realized that there are two speeds of sound on Mars — one for high-pitched sounds and one for low-pitched sounds.
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