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Someone posted on FB that "The low frequency call of the Humpback Whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature, and can be heard from 500 miles away." I want to know if that was measured strictly underwater or if this is in fact the loudest noise made by a living creature...
If you want the largest sound made by an animal that animal is the Blue Whale.
The loudest man-made noise on record was the test of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961. The blast produced a sound level of around 180 decibels, which is beyond the threshold of pain for humans and could be heard up to 1,000 miles away.
The world's loudest man-made noise was the detonation of the Tsar Bomba, a Soviet hydrogen bomb tested in 1961. It produced a sound level estimated at around 210 decibels, which is beyond the threshold of pain and can cause immediate and permanent hearing damage.
Though Adelina Patti was an excellent 19th century opera singer, the low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature, able to be heard up to 500 miles away.
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An ex-wife ... lol Sorry, just couldn't resist ... ! _____________ Of the various natural things that can occur on earth without extra-terrestrial involvement, the loudest thing perhaps is the eruption of the caldera of a mega-volcano, or the eruption of a very large cone-producing volcano. Maybe louder still would be a collision with a very large comet or other body. I wouldn't like to be around in either case. Considering non-cataclysmic events, my guess would be: either the world's winds combined, or the world's surface water. If we could collect and concentrate the sound produced by either of these things, the loudness would be unexpected and phenomenal.
An atom bomb.
165dB
There are remote areas like deserts, forests, or oceans where man-made noise is minimal, but it is rare to find a place completely free of all human-made noise. One notable example is the Antarctic Plateau, which is one of the quietest places on Earth due to its extreme isolation and lack of human activity.