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| | Decibels | Examples | | Threshold of Pain | 140 | Jet Engine (75ft away) | Painful & Dangerous | | | 130 | Jet Aircraft during take off (300ft away) | Threshold of Feeling | 120 | Hard Rock Band (with amplification) | Deafening | | | 110 | Accelerating Motorcycle at a few feet away. | | | 100 | Car Horn at 10ft / Football Crowd / Printing Press | Very Loud | | | 90 | Pneumatic Concrete Breaker | Threshold of hearing loss | 80 | Café with sound reflecting surfaces | Loud | (long term exposure) | 70 | B-757 Aircraft cabin during flight / Crackling of food wrapper (2ft away) | | | 60 | Near Road Traffic (when greater than 55dB road & rail annoy most people) | Moderate | Speech 50-70dB | 50 | Office Environment | | | 40 | Soft Stereo Music at home | Faint | | | 30 | Home environment without stereo, late at night | | | 20 | Whisper / Audiometric testing room | Very Faint | | | 10 | Russle of leaves in breeze / Human breathing | Threshold of hearing | 0 | Threshold of hearing |
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