What is the loudest word ever spoken?

'Quietttt!!!
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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What was the loudest word screamed?

The current shouting record has been held by Annalisa Wray since 1994. At the Citybus Challenge in Belfast, Northern Ireland, she ironically yelled the word "quiet" to a level of 121.7 dBA. That's almost as loud as a jet engine! Classroom assistant Jill Drake holds the scream title at an ear-piercing 129 dBA.
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Who has the loudest voice in the world?

The loudest animal of all

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 A human can be?

What is a decibel?
  • The sound of your own breathing – 10 dB.
  • A whisper – 20 dB.
  • A normal conversation – 60 dB.
  • A noisy restaurant – 70 dB.
  • An electric drill – 95 dB.
  • Jill Drake, a teaching assistant who in 2000 won the Guinness World Record for the loudest individual's shout – 129 dB.
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What does 194 decibels sound like?

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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How loud is a nuke?

Listen to this. 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.
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Can you make a 1100 dB sound?

No, because: 1) it's not possible to create sound beyond a 194 decibel limit.
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How loud is a black hole?

On how the black hole audio was made

And it was essentially a B-flat about 57 octaves below middle C. So we've taken that sound that the universe was singing and then just brought it back up into the range of human hearing — because we certainly can't hear 57 octaves below middle C.
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What is the quietest sound we can hear?

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 far can a human yell?

This question is answered by the Guinness World Records. The normal intelligible outdoor range of the male human voice in still air is 180 m (590 ft 6.6 in). The silbo, the whistled language of the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Canary Island of La Gomera, is intelligible under ideal conditions at 8 km (5 miles).
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What animal screams loudest?

Howler Monkey. Howler Monkeys are the loudest animal in the New World with screams that can reach 140 decibels.
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Which is louder sperm or blue whale?

The blue whale, the largest animal on earth, can produce loud whistling calls that reach up to 188 db. These calls can travel up to 500 miles underwater. But the loudest is the sperm whale. It makes a series of clicking noises that can reach as high as 230 db making it the loudest animal in the world.
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What is louder than a blue whale?

While blue whales are both the loudest and the largest animals, the sperm whale is louder in terms of pure decibels. Its clicks are measured at an incredible 230 decibels.
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What's the world's loudest fart?

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the loudest fart ever recorded was a fart of 113 decibels, by Herkimer Chort of Ripley, NY USA, on October 11th, 1972.
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Is quiet the loudest word?

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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What is the loudest sound on the earth?

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. The explosion caused two thirds of the island to collapse and formed tsunami waves as high as 46 m (151 ft) rocking ships as far away as South Africa.
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Can a person hear 0 decibels?

A human can normally hear sounds between 0 and 130 dB. 0 decibels represent the human hearing or auditory threshold (the level we can start hearing sounds from). 130 dB is the pain threshold (the maximum level of sound we can hear without feeling intense pain and instantly damaging our hearing).
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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 is a 0 decibel sound?

The lowest hearing decibel level is 0 dB, which indicates nearly total silence and is the softest sound that the human ear can hear. Generally speaking, the louder the sound, the higher the decibel number.
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Did NASA record a black hole?

NASA has just released an audio recording from inside a black hole - the largest in the universe. From inside the Perseus black hole, listeners are invited to listen to the ripples of sound remastered for the human ear by NASA, which is also said to feature the 'lowest note in the universe'.
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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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Can sound destroy the universe?

It may be possible to destroy everything with a loud enough sound. NASA estimates the mass energy of the universe at 4x1069 joules. But that number that is considerably smaller than the energy created by 1,100 decibels of sound.
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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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At what dB black hole is created?

With energy as great as 1100 dB, it would create enough gravity to cause a black hole to form, and an incredibly large one at that. Decibels are a logarithmic unit. That means 20 decibels isn't 2 times more powerful than 10 decibels, it's 10 times more powerful.
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How loud is Krakatoa?

On the morning of 27 August 1883, on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa, a volcanic eruption produced what scientists believe to be the loudest sound produced on the surface of the planet, estimated at 310 decibels (dB).
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