Cryoseisms also known as frost quakes or ice quakes may have been the reason loud booms and banging sounds were reported in the chicago area where brutally cold below zero wind chills have taken over.
Frost quake roof.
Toronto if you re like many people across the gta you ve heard what sounded like something falling on your roof lately.
The jarring frost quakes have people around new england asking what was that watch the reporta panicked sandra tilden of framingham began to search her attic for the source of a series of.
Ice can be very rigid at cold temperatures and as it expands it s trying to find room for itself.
Earthquakes happen when tectonic plates the enormous sheets of earth s.
The first occurrence was widely reported across social media on christmas.
The frost quake weather phenomenon occurs when the ground is saturated with water or ice.