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How far away was the 1883 Krakatoa explosion heard?
The fourth explosion of Krakatoa on 27 August 1883 was heard by the chief of police on Rodrigues island in the western Indian Ocean, 4,800 km away — over four hours after the eruption, on the opposite side of the Indian Ocean. It is the loudest sound in recorded human history.
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The Loudest Sound Ever Heard On a Monday morning in August 1883, a volcano in the Sunda Strait made a noise that was registered, four thousand eight hundred kilometers away, as gunfire.
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