Frost Quake On Roof

A frost quake or cryoseism if you want to use the scientific name isn t a real earthquake because it isn t tectonic.

Frost quake on roof.

26 that also resulted in numerous calls to police. 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. A rare phenomenon is occurring in the us and canada. The first occurrence was widely reported across social media on christmas.

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. Loud booms are waking people in the night. Toronto if you re like many people across the gta you ve heard what sounded like something falling on your roof lately. Ice quakes are real and terrifying.

More about ice quakes ice booms. They re called frost quakes or the technical term. While the noise may be alarming this normally doesn t cause any damage to your roof. Ctv toronto reporter naomi parness described.

Tudos said he believes frost quakes were the cause of similar sounds that alarmed residents on dec. Because of the type of soil. Earthquakes happen when tectonic plates the enormous sheets of earth 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.

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.