What is the loudest sound you have ever heard?

[TheTecknician]

Both of mine were at very close quarters. One was a foghorn on a cross-channel ferry. It sounded whilst I, unbeknownst to me, was sitting right underneath it. I jumped so far it's a wonder I didn't end up in the sea! The other was one afternoon at work, standing underneath Concorde when it was starting two of its four engines. It was the most incredible, deep-chested roar I've ever heard. Yet to be surpassed.

A sonic boom over the school playground. The children were all panicking, thinking a bomb had exploded or something! The RAF pilot was later under disciplinary proceedings for going supersonic over a populated area, apparently

A Harrier jet landing at an airshow many years ago or some bands I saw.

Sonic boom. I felt it rather than heard it.

A military jet flying low over the moors we were hiking on. It was so low you could see the pilot. Frightened me out of my skin.

The Docklands bomb.

Sound systems at Notting Hill Carnival; feel like your whole body is vibrating.

A clap of thunder directly above our house - or so it sounded - which was so loud I nearly jumped out of my skin.

My ds shouting into my ear

When lighting struck the bus I was in and we fell off the road. It was so loud I heard it for a millisecond and then I was deaf for hours afterwards.

And yes, thunder directly above the house (it was simultaneous with the flash of lightning).

DGD

My ddog does a very high pitch shriek bark. Actually hurts my ears..

I live in the Mach loop.

I've been on the flightpath with Concorde very low overhead - loudest sound in my experience. Felt in the my chest

Standing next to a de havilland vampire as it took off.

A bomb, when I was living in Belfast. It wasn't close by but was huge and shook the whole house.

Motörhead concert

A Smith & Wesson 500 Magnum hand gun fired whilst standing right next to me without ear defenders on.

Standing up on a seat trying to see better at a gig not realising it put my ear right next to a speaker

I moved back down pretty quick 😅

A sonic boom over the house. It sounded and felt like someone had slammed a door on the earth.

A My Bloody Valentine concert

@darksigns jealous!

Thunder right over the house.

Sonicboom above work ... the Italian military were in training

A sonic boom over the pub I was in. The doors flew open, I thought I'd had a heart attack for a moment.