Toronto’s Extreme Cold Prompts Frost Quakes Suspicions

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Although the weather forecast in Toronto is relatively better than the extreme conditions in eastern Canada, the temperatures here are now diving down to minus -30 degree range in as well. Several notable meteorologists are predicting that cold in Toronto might even have resulted in an earthquake.

According to the local police, more than a 100 people in the GTA called them and complained about hearing a sort of gunshot fired outside their home, some of which even reported having held the ground shake. One such complainant, who is a Brampton resident, reported that at “about 1:30 in the morning, it sounded like a gunshot,” adding that “I was asleep. I looked out the window, didn’t know what it was … I heard it once more after that. It just sounded like a complete gunshot to me.” Later authorities conceived that it was in fact frost quakes.

According to a renewed meteorologist, Natasha Ramsahai, frost quake is caused when rain and ice seep down into the soil and then freezes when temperatures drop. Ramsahai remembered that frost quakes were also reported in the past on Christmas Eve, apart from that she alleged that “obviously it’s been over 40 years since the GTA has had an ice storm so we haven’t had reports of a cryoseism in the city for at least that long.” She added that “water expands when it freezes and when it expands in frozen soil it literally puts a lot of stress on that dirt and will release that energy all of a sudden, very much like an earthquake releases that energy and shifts the ground.”