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Hey there! π Have you ever wondered what a nuke would sound like from various distances? π€ Let’s dive into the world of nuclear explosions and their deafening roars! π₯
## The Sound of a Nuclear Explosion:
### From 20 Miles Away:
– At 20 miles away, a nuclear explosion would sound like a deep, rumbling boom.
– The sound would be intense but may not immediately cause deafness.
### From 30 Miles Away:
– From 30 miles away, the sound would be slightly muffled compared to being closer.
– While still loud, the impact on your hearing would likely be less severe.
### From 50 Miles Away:
– At 50 miles away, the sound of a nuclear explosion would be more distant, resembling a distant thunderstorm.
– The volume would be lower, reducing the risk of instant deafness.
### From 100 Miles Away:
– From 100 miles away, the sound of a nuclear explosion would be significantly quieter.
– It may sound like a distant explosion with a faint rumble, similar to controlled demolitions.
## Impact on Hearing:
While the sound of a nuclear explosion can be extremely loud and terrifying up close, the risk of instant deafness diminishes as you move further away. π₯π It’s important to note that the intense pressure wave and shockwave caused by a nuke can still have devastating effects on structures and individuals, even at great distances.
In conclusion, the sound of a nuclear explosion varies depending on your proximity to the blast, with the volume decreasing as you move further away. Remember to prioritize safety and seek shelter in the event of a nuclear detonation. Stay informed and stay safe! π #StaySafe #NuclearSafety #ProtectYourHearing
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Ah someone is a fan of the Fallout TV show I see
Here’s a video explaining 7miles (11km) away:
It would sound like a gunshot. A single step impulse, not a “kaboom”. But very, very loud indeed. This is because the nuclear reactions that drive the big explosion occur on the scale of microseconds, not milliseconds.
It didn’t make the various observers at the early nuke tests deaf, so we know that you probably wouldn’t be deafened if you were a few tens of miles away.
Interestingly, the “inverse square law” for sound tells us that as you double the distance from the explosion, the intensity of the sound pressure level drops by a quarter. So while standing 1 mile away from a 1 megaton blast might subject you to an unbearable 140 dB, which can cause immediate hearing damage, by the time you’re at 8 miles out, the level drops significantly to around 90 dB, which is about as loud as a passing motorcycle. This doesn’t account for environmental factors such as wind direction, terrain, and atmospheric conditions, which can all dramatically affect how sound travels and its eventual impact on the human ear. Still, not something I’d want to experience firsthand!
Don’t count in eagels^2 but it depends also on what size of the bomb. The tsar bomba had a sound wave going around the whole globe 3 times but think you can be relative close to any nuclear bomb whitout destroying your hearing as long as it’s far enough away for you not to die or get hurt.
203050100 miles away is 2.1 Astronomical Units or basically to the Sun and back. In other words it’s the other side of Earth’s orbit from where we are currently. Nothing shares our orbital ellipse (other than the moon but that orbits us) so that area is currently vacant and I’m sure there’s no sound in the vacuum of space so it’ll be pretty quiet.
This might not have answered the question you were trying to ask, but it does answer the one you wrote.
The volume decreases by the cube of the distance, so for all but the very very very very largest bombs, it won’t sound like much at a surprisingly short distance.
That said, you should look up the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, which was bigger than any bomb ever built.
According to how big the Nuke is, you may not hear anything as the shockwave would kill you
It will pretty mouch sound like this. A sharp, short, Bang.
Reason: You do not hear the true Sound of the explosion, you hear the pressure wave of the fireball that comes at you with speeds far over the speed of sound in air.
Its pretty much the same sound of any explosion that happens with extreme speeds.
You might also look up the Videos with sound from the Chelyabinsk Meteorite. That Air explosion had around 500 Kiloton.
Thereβs released videos showing this. Go check them out.
Have … have you not seen the overpressure waves in those old documentary films …?
My high ass tried reading that as one number and about had a stroke. Now I think I will have a stroke, any recommendations boys?
Can I introduce you to the space bar?
Depends on a lot of factors, mostly the yield of the bomb
Form 20 to about 40 miles it would be about 210-200 decibels. A passenger jet is about 140 at full throttle for reference.Β
This is a difficult thing to explain because if you were say, inside a building where you were would get hit by the shockwave before the sound got to you. You’d basically be dead before you had a chance to go deaf from the noise.
I would like to take this opportunity to recommend this brilliant surreal animation. “Powerful, ludicrous and shocking.” Hope you watch.
Nuclear-War Animation Film I When the Wind Blows (1986)
[https://youtu.be/1xAIqDMW8dE](https://youtu.be/1xAIqDMW8dE)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(1986_film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(1986_film))
The film stars the voices of John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft as the two main characters and was scored by Roger Waters. The film recounts a rural English couple’s attempt to survive a nearby nuclear attack and maintain a sense of normality in the subsequent fallout and nuclear winter.
Since the biggest nuke ever detonated on earth actually exploded 4/10 of a mile above ground, and the closest survivor, Akiko Takakura, was only 300 meters away from the hypocenter of the blast, and she didn’t go deaf, it’s fairly safe to say that you wouldn’t.
Like my granddad sneezing
If youβre close enough it will make you totally deaf, also totally dead.
Biiiiiig bada boom.
>Almost no one in Hiroshima recalls hearing any noise of the bomb. But a fisherman in his sampan on the Inland Sea near Tsuzu, the man with whom Mr. Tanimotoβs mother-in-law and sister-in-law were living, saw the flash and heard a tremendous explosion; he was nearly twenty miles from Hiroshima, but the thunder was greater than when the B-29s hit Iwakuni, only five miles away.
John Hersey. *Hiroshima* (p. 3). Kindle Edition.