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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Do extremely loud sounds (150 decibels) at frequencies beyond human hearing (21kHz or 10Hz) still cause hearing damage or loss?
gpt
Yes. Ultrasonic sounds (above 20kHz) can cause some hearing damage but only from a prolonged exposure. At lower subsonic frequencies can cause your eyballs to vibrate making it difficult to see or focus. With rising amplitude sounds become more dangerous regardless of frequency. Above around 200 db sounds can cause fatal haemorrhaging and rupture of some tissues inside the lungs. Above that you have more of a blast wave. It becomes closer to being comparable to getting hit by a truck. When you pump energy into the wave the frequency doesn't really matter, it still hurts.