Boston is in Massachusetts at the north eastern part of USA and Dublin is in the north eastern part of Ireland which is across the Atlantic ocean so pretty damn far away.
It's the same distance as from Cape Town, SA to Accra, Ghana. So if you live in Cape Town, imagine hearing booming in your house that originated in Ghana.
There is a limit to how loud a sound can be... and this isn't the first time in human history the sound has been produced. At a point the vibration of air molecules produces dips that cause a vacuum that pushes the air along with it, so you get a shock-wave, not a sound-wave. Now, the furthest sound ever heard? Nope, not in history. as the shock-wave died down into sound-waves, they circled the Earth 4x over. Yellowstone erupting 640,000 years ago sent sound-waves around the Earth that would have circled around 10x. The K-T extinction impact would have sent sound-waves that would have circled the Earth around 100x.
Regardless, if you were on the edge where the shock-wave turned into a sound-wave, the sound would kill you. It would have been over 10,000x louder than standing next to a jet engine.
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@jasonmon thanks bru, capetonian here.
Regardless, if you were on the edge where the shock-wave turned into a sound-wave, the sound would kill you. It would have been over 10,000x louder than standing next to a jet engine.