Frost Quake On Roof

The first occurrence was widely reported across social media on christmas.

Frost quake on roof.

A rare phenomenon is occurring in the us and canada. 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. Ctv toronto reporter naomi parness described. While the noise may be alarming this normally doesn t cause any damage to your roof.

More about ice quakes ice booms. 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. They re called frost quakes or the technical term. The frost quake weather phenomenon occurs when the ground is saturated with water or ice.

Because of the type of soil. 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. 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.

Tudos said he believes frost quakes were the cause of similar sounds that alarmed residents on dec. 26 that also resulted in numerous calls to police. 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. Toronto if you re like many people across the gta you ve heard what sounded like something falling on your roof lately.

Earthquakes happen when tectonic plates the enormous sheets of earth s.