Frost Quake On Roof

Ice quakes are real and terrifying.

Frost quake on roof.

The first occurrence was widely reported across social media on christmas. They re called frost quakes or the technical term. More about ice quakes ice booms. Loud booms are waking people in the night.

For now the possibilities of frost quakes are probably confined to the frigid flat plains of the midwest the southeastern canada area and the northeastern u s. It sounded like somebody dropped a wrecking ball on my. Because of the type of soil. Tudos said he believes frost quakes were the cause of similar sounds that alarmed residents on dec.

The frost quake weather phenomenon occurs when the ground is saturated with water or ice. Ice refreezing on the roof ice that forms or refreezes on your roof can make booms and loud cracking sounds as the ice expands under the layer of ice already there. 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. While the noise may be alarming this normally doesn t cause any damage to your roof.

A rare phenomenon is occurring in the us and canada. 26 that also resulted in numerous calls to police. A frost quake or cryoseism if you want to use the scientific name isn t a real earthquake because it isn t tectonic. Earthquakes happen when tectonic plates the enormous sheets of earth s.

A panicked sandra tilden of framingham began to search her attic for the source of a series of loud thuds that woke her up overnight.