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