Chicago residents on Jan. 30 reported hearing loud boom-like noises, but there were no earthquakes reported.
WGN-TV reported that the booms might “have been cryoseisms, or frost quakes” amid subzero temperatures.
Amid the so-called “polar vortex” that’s affecting the Midwest, some have noted that Chicago will be colder than Antarctica this week. NWS
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