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Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.

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Neither the victims nor the person of interest have been identified yet in the shooting that left two dead and nine others injured.

Research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is advancing the ability to quickly clean up Earth’s ...