Frost Quake Roof

Meteorologists said wednesday that sound and other cracking sounds inside and outside houses is called a cryoseism or a frost quake others say it s the sound made by wood and steel.

Frost quake roof. 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. The frost quake weather phenomenon occurs when the ground is saturated with water or ice. The first occurrence was widely reported across social media on christmas.

Toronto if you re like many people across the gta you ve heard what sounded like something falling on your roof lately. A frost quake or cryoseism if you want to use the scientific name isn t a real earthquake because it isn t tectonic.