![]() ![]() Noyes compared the natural occurrence to filling an ice cube tray.įilling the tray all the way will cause the ice to protrude and expand outside the tray as it forms. That causes the water in the top inches of the ground to quickly freeze. The ground, which is typically already slightly above freezing, quickly cools to below freezing. The setup for a frost quake happens when soil is saturated from steady precipitation, such as snowmelt, and the air rapidly cools as colder air surges in, Noyes said. ![]() Though they feel similar, frost quakes are different from earthquakes. Meteorologist Matt Noyes with Boston NBC affiliate WBTS-TV reported that the cause of the explosion-like noise heard in Massachusetts and New Hampshire was likely a frost quake. The region has a seismic network that picks up on even small earthquakes when they rattle area communities.īut no quakes were picked up over the weekend, which left residents and weather experts wondering about the cause of the latest boom. Random booms aren’t completely out of the ordinary in New England. Numerous residents reported hearing the noise in southeast New Hampshire and northeast Massachusetts on Saturday night. US spies are investigating mystery ‘satellite sabotage attack’Ī loud noise was heard in New England on Saturday with some experts speculating it was a phenomenon called a frost quake. Inside China’s race to dominate the Moon and Mars Warning as millions of iPhones targeted by hackers ![]()
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