Well.....You learn something new every day, no matter how old you are. In all my years I never heard of this. What makes it personal is I have family living in N Y , right on the shores of Lake Ontario and they are in the midst of the results of an ice storm and are experiencing these "booms".
You're sound asleep on a cold, wintry night, and all of a sudden a loud boom wakes you up. A few things on your shelves rattle for a second or two, then all is silent.
Was it an earthquake? Maybe, but the real culprit is likely a frost quake, a geological phenomenon brought on by winter weather. Unlike earthquakes, frost quakes are non-tectonic seismic events, meaning they are not caused by the shifting of the Earth's tectonic plates.
Also known as cryoseisms, frost quakes are caused by a sudden rapid freezing of ground and bedrock, usually when temperatures go from above freezing to below zero. READ MORE
February 12, 2011; 7:27 AM this article is from Feb. 2011, but this story is ongoing Dec. 25 2013
Was it an earthquake? Maybe, but the real culprit is likely a frost quake, a geological phenomenon brought on by winter weather. Unlike earthquakes, frost quakes are non-tectonic seismic events, meaning they are not caused by the shifting of the Earth's tectonic plates.
Also known as cryoseisms, frost quakes are caused by a sudden rapid freezing of ground and bedrock, usually when temperatures go from above freezing to below zero. READ MORE
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