Who is the loudest person in the world?

Irish teacher Annalisa Flanagan holds the world's loudest shouting record with 121 decibels (dB), but there was no previous singing record. The lively Bulgarian from the southern city of Plovdiv faced a series of tough requirements.
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What is the loudest human scream ever?

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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Whats 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 is loudest thing ever?

The Krakatoa Eruption (310 dB)

The Krakatoa Island, which is located between the Islands of Java and Sumatra, exploded and caused heavy destruction followed by Tsunamis and other major losses. This eruption produced a sound at 310dB, the loudest sound ever produced. Even people living 1,930 miles away could hear it.
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How loud is a black hole?

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 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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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 can a phone get?

Audio devices and mobile phones including iPhone have a sound level of 100 dB or louder. iPhones can produce a maximum of 115 decibels (software limits European iPods to 100 dB; U.S. models have been measured higher), the equivalent of attending a rock concert amplification.
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How loud can a woman 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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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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Who is the loudest singer?

Irish teacher Annalisa Flanagan holds the world's loudest shouting record with 121 decibels (dB), but there was no previous singing record. The lively Bulgarian from the southern city of Plovdiv faced a series of tough requirements.
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Which animal is the loudest?

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 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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How many decibels is the 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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What is the loudest sound in the universe?

The 1883 Krakatoa volcano eruption was the loudest sound recorded on Earth, but there are much louder sounds in space, even though we technically can't hear them.
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How loud can a human whistle?

Frequent exposure to whistle blowing could lead to hearing loss. A single whistle blow ranges from 104 to 116 decibels and can severely harm hearing, according to research carried out by Professor Greg Flamme at the Western Michigan University.
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Which is the loudest iPhone?

The results will come as no surprise to anyone who owns one of the two newest iPhones - the iPhone 6 is the loudest, at 105.4dBA while the iPhone 6 Plus comes in second at 105.0dBA. The iClarified team found that the iPhone 6 is 10.1dBA louder than the original 2G iPhone.
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Why do I speak so loudly?

Speaking too loudly can be a sign of hearing loss. Other signs of sensorineural hearing loss are difficulty hearing when there is a lot of background noise, and understanding what people are saying with clarity. If you are experiencing these symptoms, see your physician and get your hearing checked.
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How loud is a atomic 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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Is the Sun really loud?

The answer might surprise you, as solar physicists estimate that the solar surface noise would be approximately 100dB by the time it reaches Earth! The enormity of the sun's surface paired with its capability of generating of tens of thousands of watts of sound energy per meter makes the sun astronomically loud.
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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 a person hear 0 decibels?

Humans have a hearing threshold of around 0 decibels. Above this threshold, sounds with higher sound pressure levels are heard as louder noises.
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Is there a place with no sound?

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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Is white noise safe?

The highest safe exposure level for adults is 85 decibels over eight hours. Some researchers claim that white noise can lead to children developing auditory processing disorders. This is because the brain quickly adapts to the sound and stops acknowledging it as something worth listening to.
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