Frost Quake On Roof

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Frost quake on roof.

The first occurrence was widely reported across social media on christmas. A rare phenomenon is occurring in the us and canada. 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. Earthquakes happen when tectonic plates the enormous sheets of earth s.

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. 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. Ice quakes are real and terrifying. 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. It sounded like somebody dropped a wrecking ball on my. They re called frost quakes or the technical term. 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.

Tudos said he believes frost quakes were the cause of similar sounds that alarmed residents on dec. A frost quake or cryoseism if you want to use the scientific name isn t a real earthquake because it isn t tectonic. Because of the type of soil. Toronto if you re like many people across the gta you ve heard what sounded like something falling on your roof lately.

While the noise may be alarming this normally doesn t cause any damage to your roof.