Who is the loudest person on earth?

Stan Lemkuil could have been interviewed simply by sticking his head out of the kitchen window and talking to Los Angeles. Lemkuil is the World's Loudest Man. How loud is loud? Lemkuil tops out at 117 decibels, measured at a distance of 8 feet, 2 inches, and has his Guinness certificate to prove it.
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Who is 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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Who can scream the loudest in the world?

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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Which is the loudest voice on earth?

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 has yelled?

The shout clocked up an earth-shattering 121.7 decibels, setting a world record and potentially damaging the hearing of anyone within earshot.
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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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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 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 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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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 the loudest fart ever recorded?

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 sneeze?

And finally… a bit of trivia: the world record for the loudest sneeze is held by a man in China called Yi Yang whose nose explodes at a level of 176 decibels ... for those who would like to know an Anton boom registers at 120 decibels.
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What is the loudest male voice?

Stan Lemkuil could have been interviewed simply by sticking his head out of the kitchen window and talking to Los Angeles. Lemkuil is the World's Loudest Man. How loud is loud? Lemkuil tops out at 117 decibels, measured at a distance of 8 feet, 2 inches, and has his Guinness certificate to prove it.
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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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Why is the loudest person the weakest?

If you have watched American Gangster, you have probably heard of the quote: “the loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.” When Denzel Washington said that, he was trying to explain how he had tons of problems when he was showing off (being loud), and how he had very few problems when he wasn't showing ...
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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 is my phone?

With a free app and your Android phone, you can turn your phone into a noise meter and find out. Download Sound Meter from the Android Market and launch the app. It starts right up to the sound meter and measures the minimum, mean, and maximum ambient sound levels in decibels (dB).
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What if my ears are ringing?

Tinnitus is usually caused by an underlying condition, such as age-related hearing loss, an ear injury or a problem with the circulatory system. For many people, tinnitus improves with treatment of the underlying cause or with other treatments that reduce or mask the noise, making tinnitus less noticeable.
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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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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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How loud is a thunder?

The loudness of thunder can be expressed in decibels (dB). A clap of thunder typically registers at about 120 dB in close proximity to the ground stroke. This is 10 times louder than a garbage truck or pneumatic jackhammer drill.
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Can you hear the sun?

Today, we can hear the Sun's movement — all of its waves, loops and eruptions — with our own ears. This sound helps scientists study what can't be observed with the naked eye.
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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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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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