Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you hear a loud "boom" in central Illinois this week, it could be a frost quake, a weather phenomenon that happens when ...

Residents in areas experiencing extreme cold may be startled by mysterious booming sounds and vibrations, a phenomenon meteorologists attribute to "frost quakes" or "cryoseisms.” These unusual noises ...

Here in Washington and in many other places across the country, we've had a lot of snow over the past several days, and some areas also had a rare phenomenon known as frost quakes. Never heard of them ...