The loudest sound ever recorded was an 1883 volcanic eruption on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa, clocking in at an estimated 310 decibels. Not that anybody who heard the explosion at full blast lived to tell the tale; it was estimated to have a force equivalent to 10,000 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, and destroyed most of the island while shooting unstable clouds of hot gas to the surrounding area.
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