What is the loudest sports crowd ever?

The Kansas City Chiefs' Arrowhead Stadium holds the Guinness World Record for loudest outdoor stadium, reaching 142.2 decibels at a game in 2014.
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What is the loudest crowd noise ever recorded?

How loud is it at Arrowhead Stadium? In 2014, Arrowhead Stadium set a Guinness World Record for its stadium noise against the New England Patriots. The fans were so loud that they registered the sound at 142.2 decibels. That's louder than a jet plane taking off.
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What is the loudest sports event ever?

Fans at Arrowhead Stadium break the Guiness world record for loudest outdoor open air stadium as the noise hits 137.5 decibels during the Kansas City Chiefs Week 6 game against the Oakland Raiders.
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Who holds the record for loudest stadium?

How loud does it get at Arrowhead Stadium? As mentioned above, the venue holds the world record for the loudest crowd roar recorded at a sporting event: 142.2 decibels, set during the first quarter of the Chiefs' game against the Patriots on Sept.
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What is the loudest crowd football?

Arrowhead cemented itself as not just the loudest NFL stadium, but the loudest stadium in the world when the decibel level reached a deafening 142.2 in a 2014 game against the Patriots. After that, the "loudest NFL stadium" crown has been worn by the Chiefs Kingdom.
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What is the loudest crowd roar in sports?

The Guinness Book of World Records says Arrowhead Stadium's 142.2 dbA roar during the Sept. 29, 2014, game against the Patriots is the loudest crowd roar ever recorded at a sporting event.
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Who are the noisiest football fans?

Three words: Guinness World Records. Turk Telecom Arena held the record for the loudest crowd roar in a sports stadium, when Galatasaray fans hit 131 decibels.
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What does 142 decibels sound like?

120 – 140 decibels: Such as, a rock concert, auto racing, or a hammer pounding a nail. 125 – 155 decibels: Like, firecrackers or fireworks, or a jet engine. 170 – 190 decibels: For example, a shot gun blast or a rocket lift off.
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How loud is 137.6 decibels?

By NIOSH's noise meter, 137.6 decibels is almost equivalent to the sound level jet engines make during takeoff.
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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 most explosive sport?

To put it simply, SPEED is the ultimate weapon in athletics. I'm sure if you were to ask any athlete what ability they would most like to possess, it would be speed!
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What is the hardest athletic event?

Antarctic Ice Marathon

This 42.2km, five-day race takes place a few hundred kilometres from the South Pole at the foot of the Ellsworth Mountains. Athletes will have to compete in snow, ice and a windchill temperature of -20C, all at an altitude of 700m. This is the southernmost marathon on earth.
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What is the world's most popular sport?

With 3.5 billion fans around the world, soccer is the one sport that pretty much the whole world can agree upon can be claimed the most viewed sports in the world.
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Why is 194 dB the loudest sound possible?

At 194 dB, the energy in the sound waves starts distorting and they create a complete vacuum between themselves. The sound is no longer moving through the air, but is in fact pushing the air along with it, forming a pressurized wall of moving air.
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How loud is 194 decibels?

A note on the loudest possible sound in air

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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How loud is 1000 decibels?

First 1000 dB is a physical impossibility, anything over 150dB would burst your eardrums, anything over 194dB is no longer sound and anything over 200dB is fatal.
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What would 200 decibels do to you?

Sounds above 150 dB have the potential of causing life-threatening issues. Sounds between 170-200 dB are so intense that they can cause lethal issues like pulmonary embolisms, pulmonary contusions, or even burst lungs.
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How loud is 1100 decibels?

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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What does 200 decibels sound like?

A sperm whale's click is 200 decibels, the unit used to measure the intensity of a sound, said Jennifer Miksis-Olds, associate professor of acoustics at Penn State.
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How loud is a nuclear bomb?

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 gunshot?

Firearms Are Loud

Almost all firearms create noise that is over the 140-dB level. 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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Can humans hear 200 decibels?

The human ear as a dyamic range from 0dB (threshold) to 120-130 dB. This is true for the middle frequency range (1-2 kHz). For lower or higher frequencies, the dynamic is narrowed. However, as shown on this graph, all sounds above 90 dB are damaging the inner ear and even doing irreversible damage above 120 dB.
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What football team has the nicest fans?

The Top Five. A Green Bay Packers fan base leads all NFL fan bases as of 2022, followed by the Patriots, Cowboys, the Eagles, and a Steeler fan base.
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Which team has the loudest fans?

Lumen Field (Seattle, Washington)

Bottom Line: Fans of the Seattle Seahawks have set the Guinness World Record for loudest crowd roar at an outdoor stadium twice — reaching 136.6 decibels in 2013 and 137.6 decibels in 2014.
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