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!
Annalisa Wray (UK) achieved a shout of 121.7 dBA, shouting the word 'quiet', at the Citybus Challenge, Belfast, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, on 16 April 1994.
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.
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.
The Krakatoa volcanic eruption: Not only did it cause serious damage to the island, the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 created the loudest sound ever reported at 180 dB. It was so loud it was heard 3,000 miles (5,000 km) away.
Decibel levels:
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.
“Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most”
“The devil's voice is sweet to hear.”
The original Scream featured one of the creepiest lines ever delivered in the franchise as Ghostface greets his victim by name with a simple, "Hello, Sidney." The terror caused by this one line was felt by the audience, though it was given a fitting update in 2022's Scream.
“Great souls suffer in silence,” a quote within the play “Don Carlos” by Friedrich Schiller, is a phrase that remains extremely relevant within contemporary times.
The Loudest Sound, Naturally
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.
(Photo by NASA/CXC/Columbia Univ./C. Hailey et al.) For the first time in history, earthlings can hear what a black hole sounds like: a low-pitched groaning, as if a very creaky heavy door was being opened again and again.
A powerful black hole is at the center of one of these galaxies that make up the Perseus galaxy cluster. Periodically, this black hole ejects an enormous amount of energy into the hot surrounding gas, which transports the energy as sound waves travelling out through the cluster like expanding bubbles.
A lion's roar can be heard five miles away
The lion has the loudest roar of all the big cats. It's so loud it can reach 114 decibels (at a distance of around one metre) and can be heard from as far away as five miles.
Scientists say they have discovered the fastest possible speed of sound. Researchers found soundwaves travelled at 36km per second in solid atomic hydrogen. That is about twice the speed at which they can travel through diamond - the hardest known material in the world.
DeForest pegs the sun's din on Earth at around 100 decibels, a bit quieter than the speakers at a rock concert. That's during the day, of course. At night, as we turn away from the sun, the roar would fade.
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.
Don't let the name fool you: a black hole is anything but empty space. Rather, it is a great amount of matter packed into a very small area - think of a star ten times more massive than the Sun squeezed into a sphere approximately the diameter of New York City.
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!
The sperm whale is technically the loudest animal in the world, but the answer is up for debate because how we perceive loudness is subjective. Do you measure the loudest animal by the decibels they register or by the impact of the sound itself? The dispute comes down to two animals: the blue whale and the sperm whale.
His silence, motivated by great care for God and for Jesus and Mary, made Joseph a man of continuous prayer. His contact with God had no time but beautifully spread throughout his whole days.
Suffering in silence leads to taking our frustrations in negative ways. Suffering in silence only brings more pain and misery. But when we open up instead of hiding, things eventually get better.