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HISTORY FACTS * The loudest sound in history *
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HISTORY FACTS * The loudest sound in history *
by Paul Thu 18 Jan 2024, 6:00 am
The loudest known sound was the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano.
On May 20, 1883, Krakatoa, a volcano on Rakata Island in Indonesia, erupted with a force never seen — or heard — on Earth. Some 1,300 miles away, residents of islands in the Bay of Bengal reported hearing a series of blasts “resembling those of artillery.” Even farther away, reports from islands in the western Indian Ocean recorded a “distant roar of heavy guns.” As the speed of sound is around 767 miles per hour, Krakatoa’s loud awakening took four hours to reach the distant island of Rodrigues (near Mauritius) roughly 3,000 miles away — and it still delivered sounds as loud as a gun blast.
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At an estimated 310 decibels, the eruption of Krakatoa is the loudest sound ever recorded in human history. In fact, Krakatoa was so loud that for those in close proximity, the sound of the eruption wasn’t a sound at all. That’s because at 194 decibels, acoustic vibration transforms into a shock wave of a sonic boom, and the Krakatoa shock wave was so massive, it circled Earth four times before finally dissipating. For a full five days, weather stations around the world experienced spikes in pressure every 34 hours — approximately how long it takes for sound to circumnavigate the globe. The Krakatoa eruption was one of the most powerful in history, due to a buildup of pressure in the magma chamber. It delivered the equivalent force of a 200-megaton bomb — four times as powerful as the largest-ever thermonuclear explosion, Tsar Bomba, which produced the loudest human-made sound in history.
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By the Numbers
Islands that make up Indonesia (about 6,000 of which are inhabited)18,110
Krakatoa’s height (in feet) above sea level2,667
Year the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba1961
Estimated number of active volcanoes worldwide1,350
DID YOU KNOW?
A massive volcanic eruption in 1815 created a “year without summer.”
Krakatoa wasn’t the only globe-spanning eruption that took place in Indonesia in the 19th century. In April 1815, Mount Tambora, located on Sumbawa Island, exploded and spewed ash some 36 miles into the air, reaching the stratosphere. As this ash, made of sulfur dioxide, circled the globe, it combined with water and formed sulfuric acid, which had the unfortunate side effect of preventing some of the sun’s rays from reaching Earth. This plummeted global temperatures by up to 7 degrees Fahrenheit, and caused climate abnormalities in the West that led to what’s known as “[url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/1816-the-year-without-summer.htm#:~:text=1816%2C also known as the,change in the global climate.]the year without summer[/url].” In the U.S., New England’s summer was so unseasonably cold that rivers and lakes as far south as Pennsylvania remained frozen even in July.
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