Frost Quakes Reported in Middle Tennessee

Did you feel that?!

People all over Middle Tennessee were left staring at the sky like what in the world was THAT?! late Monday night as mysterious booms and shakes rippled through the ground, only to find out it wasn’t an earthquake, a transformer explosion, or some secret military test… it was frost quakes… nature’s own “surprise ground pop” caused when water in soggy soil rapidly freezes, expands, and then violently cracks the earth with a booming crack that can rattle houses. All that recent rain from the winter storm soaked the ground, then a brutal temperature drop set the stage for this bizarre cracking spectacle across the Midstate…

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