Frost Quake On Roof

We though it may be something fall on the roof or someone trying to break in.

Frost quake on roof.

Is your house going boom in the middle of the night. Meteorologists say loud booms and creaking and cracking sounds heard inside and outside houses are something called a frost quake. Ice quakes are real and terrifying. Ice quakes are not like earthquakes and don t have an affect on the earth s.

It could cause your own roof to flex a little bit and make it sound like the roof is causing the. The source of a series of loud thuds that woke her up overnight it sounded like somebody dropped a wrecking ball on my roof she said. The jarring frost quakes have people around new england. While the noise may be alarming this normally doesn t cause any damage to your roof.

Frost quakes also known as cryoseisms occur after precipitation and bitterly cold temperatures. 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. The booms that have been heard around the gta could be a result of a frost quake but it could be something else. More about ice quakes ice booms.