Frost quakes are a cold weather phenomenon that make loud booming or popping sounds and unleash small earthquake-like tremors. They can be unsettling but don’t pose any real danger.

Dispatchers across central Indiana have been fielding frantic calls from residents who believe they’re hearing gunshots, exploding gas lines – or even secret underground activity – but it ...

Bizarre cold-weather phenomena called frost quakes — which generate shaking and ear-splitting sounds likened to exploding bombs — have blasted towns across the Northeast and upper Midwest ...

Dispatchers across central Indiana have been fielding frantic calls from residents who believe they’re hearing gunshots, exploding gas lines – or even secret underground activity – but it ...

Dispatchers across central Indiana have been fielding frantic calls from residents who believe they’re hearing gunshots, exploding gas lines – or even secret underground activity – but it ...

Unlike inflexible concrete structures, timber buildings have the ability to move with an earthquake and absorb its force throughout the entire structure.

Dispatchers across central Indiana have been fielding frantic calls from residents who believe they’re hearing gunshots, exploding gas lines – or even secret underground activity – but it ...

Dispatchers across central Indiana have been fielding frantic calls from residents who believe they’re hearing gunshots, exploding gas lines – or even secret underground activity – but it ...

Dispatchers across central Indiana have been fielding frantic calls from residents who believe they’re hearing gunshots, exploding gas lines – or even secret underground activity – but it ...

Deadly Ice Storm in the Never-Ending Winter Weather-related deaths rise; arctic air causing loud booms called frost quakes; no relief in sight from severe weather.