Loud booms recently heard in multiple St. Louis-region communities may have been caused by a sudden temperature drop, according to 5 On Your Side's Weather Impact Team. A rare weather phenomenon ...

Meteorologists say that the sudden, deep freeze of soil can cause the phenomenon. Frost quakes, also known as cryoseisms, “are triggered when the top layer of moist soil quickly freezes ...

“Please look into the frost quakes [in] northwest FW that have been happening the past 2 hours between just north of Huntertown all the way south to Wallen Rd.,” a WANE 15 viewer wrote in late ...