How can you protect yourself from an acoustic shock wave? To protect your electronics during a huge Electromagnetic Pulse in the RF range, all one needs is a Faraday shield for the most part. 
On the other hand, what do you do when you are near an acoustic shock wave/sonic boom? Obviously you no longer care about electronics, your hearing itself can be destroyed depending on the circumstances. 
There isn't an acoustic version of Faraday shields, but it should be possible to make a shield that does transmit the sonic boom and is simultaneously livable, I think phys.se owes it to the world to come up with a solution. What solution is there?

 A: Yes, it's called a bomb shelter. you build it under the surface of the ground so most of the shock wave passes it by, and you make it deep enough under ground so the mass of the overburden is sufficient to inertially clamp it against the shock impulse.
A: I don't know about shock waves specifically, but of course there are approaches to manipulating sound/pressure waves in general. For instance, a cursory search yields the following:


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*Farhat, Mohamed, et al. "Broadband cylindrical acoustic cloak for linear surface waves in a fluid." Physical review letters 101.13 (2008): 134501.

*Brun, Michele, Sébastien Guenneau, and Alexander B. Movchan.  "Achieving control of in-plane elastic waves." Applied physics letters 94.6 (2009): 061903.

*Zigoneanu, Lucian, Bogdan-Ioan Popa, and Steven A. Cummer.  "Three-dimensional broadband omnidirectional acoustic ground cloak." Nature materials 13.4 (2014): 352.
Note that these are mostly for in-plane waves, or 2D problems. They are analagous to the so-called 'invisibility cloaks' that use metamaterials to 'bend' certain frequencies of light around objects, that were all the rage in the popular science articles a few years ago.
By analogy I could imagine using layers of concentric steel cylinders to at least attenuate the effect of the shock wave. I haven't run the number's but I imagine the massive pressure gradients associated with shock waves would lead to difficulties with this approach (concrete pillars would't work because they could shatter, I'm assuming here steel would bend). I don't know whether this would work better than just hiding in a large solid steel safe, so it's not very practical. As I said, I don't think these methods are necessarily applicable to shock waves, but perhaps it's a good starting point.
Here's a popular article about such an approach (again two dimensional) to 'hide' ocean waves from tsunamis.
A: The acoustic farday cage

There isn't an acoustic version of Faraday shields...  

That's not strictly true. Sound waves (including sonic booms) require a medium to travel in. Remove the medium, and you create an impenetrable barrier to sound. For example:

Two concentric shapes with the intervening space pumped to a few torr would do the trick. The inner shape still needs to be suspended, and some sufficiently dampened springs would do. I would imagine something like the gas pistons large trucks use to suspend their cargo (called "air-ride"?).
The details are engineering related; the point is it is certainly possible to achieve arbitrary levels of isolation from a shock wave.
