The frost quake weather phenomenon occurs when the ground is saturated with water or ice.
Frost quake roof.
Frost quakes also known as cryoseisms occur after precipitation and bitterly cold temperatures.
The first occurrence was widely reported across social media on christmas.
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.
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 can be very rigid at cold temperatures and as it expands it s trying to find room for itself.
Earthquakes happen when tectonic plates the enormous sheets of earth s.