Posted December 25, 200816 yr -80 dB Underwater nuclear submarine microphones listening to shrimp chewing on food at 100 meters distance.0 dB Beginning of hearing, a mosquito 10 ft away, the ear drum moves less than 1/100 the length of an air molecule.100 dB Normal average car or home stereo at max volume.110 dB A car stereo with two 6x9s and 100 watts.127 dB Human tinnitus (ringing ears) begins.152 dB Human vibration is painfull and also felt in all joints.153 dB Human throat is vibrating so hard it is almost impossible to swallow.158 dB Human body vibration is violent, nausea becomes more intence.160 dB Ear Drum Breaks Instantly.174 dB Air begins to heat up due to compression, most shockwaves are very hot.180 dB 1 Pound of T.N.T. At 15 Feet.180 dB Death of Hearing Tissue.198-202 dB Human death from sound shockwave alone.215 dB Battleship New Jersey firing all 9 sixteen inch guns.230.59 dB 1000 Tons of T.N.T.248 dB Atomic Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki.257 dB Nuclear bomb, 1 Megaton.320 dB Volcano eruption, Tambora, Indonesia, 1815, ejected 36 cubic miles. Approximately equal to 14,000 megaton nuclear bombs or a 14 gigaton bomb.
December 25, 200816 yr That 127dB sounds right on for ringing ears!btw eyeball tissue resonates at 20Hz
December 26, 200816 yr Author i got this one sub hooked up to my computer that does somewhere near 300 dB no lieits one of the 5.25" baddasses
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