Frost Quake On Roof

A rare phenomenon is occurring in the us and canada.

Frost quake on roof.

The frost quake weather phenomenon occurs when the ground is saturated with water or ice. Tudos said he believes frost quakes were the cause of similar sounds that alarmed residents on dec. 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. Ice quakes are real and terrifying.

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. It sounded like somebody dropped a wrecking ball on my. Ctv toronto reporter naomi parness described.

Loud booms are waking people in the night. 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. While the noise may be alarming this normally doesn t cause any damage to your roof. The first occurrence was widely reported across social media on christmas.

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. 26 that also resulted in numerous calls to police. Toronto if you re like many people across the gta you ve heard what sounded like something falling on your roof lately. More about ice quakes ice booms.

They re called frost quakes or the technical term.