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.

Toronto if you re like many people across the gta you ve heard what sounded like something falling on your roof lately. 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. Ice can be very rigid at cold temperatures and as it expands it s trying to find room for itself. A frost quake or cryoseism if you want to use the scientific name isn t a real earthquake because it isn t tectonic.

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.