• @[email protected]
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    711 days ago

    The sound of the largest explosion is estimated to have been 180dB at 160km distance, and SPL falls off by 6 dB for each doubling of distance, so at the commonly used 1m distance it would have been over 280 dB.

    • Kogasa
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      111 days ago

      And 286dB at 0.5m, and 292dB at 0.25m, and infinity dB at 0m

    • teft
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      2011 days ago

      And what exactly is a sound wave if not a pressure wave?