Frost Quake On Roof

Toronto if you re like many people across the gta you ve heard what sounded like something falling on your roof lately.

Frost quake on roof. Loud booms are waking people in the night. More about ice quakes ice booms. 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.

Because of the type of soil. 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. They re called frost quakes or the technical term.

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. It sounded like somebody dropped a wrecking ball on my. While the noise may be alarming this normally doesn t cause any damage to your roof. Ctv toronto reporter naomi parness described.

The first occurrence was widely reported across social media on christmas. Earthquakes happen when tectonic plates the enormous sheets of earth s. 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. 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.

A rare phenomenon is occurring in the us and canada.