Overnight on Jan. 26, many people online reported hearing loud booms, mistakenly assuming they were tremors or earthquakes near Nashville. The noises, however, are unrelated to tectonic activity. They ...

What are frost quakes and what’s the cause of the mysterious sound? - The process begins when rain or melted snow saturates ...

Ice quakes jolted Middle Tennessee late Monday night, breaking the usual winter calm with sudden force. Almost at once, loud ...

Bitter cold and power outages persist as the death toll rises in Middle Tennessee after Winter Storm Fern. Emergency response continues.

These noises are known as frost quakes or cryoseisms, a cold-weather phenomenon that occurs when rain or melted snow in the ...