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.

Frost quake roof.

A frost quake or cryoseism if you want to use the scientific name isn t a real earthquake because it isn t tectonic. The jarring frost quakes have people around new england asking what was that watch the reporta panicked sandra tilden of framingham began to search her attic for the source of a series of. Frost quakes also known as cryoseisms occur after precipitation and bitterly cold temperatures. The first occurrence was widely reported across social media on christmas.

Ice can be very rigid at cold temperatures and as it expands it s trying to find room for itself. 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.