21 May 2023

Jarkko Okkonen: ‘Frost Quakes’ explained

From Sunday Morning, 11:10 am on 21 May 2023

We are the shaky isles, but at the opposite end of the world some places we don't think of as shaky are becoming more so.  

A town in northern Finland was hit this year by 26 frost quakes in 7 hours. That's a world record. They've just confirmed the data on this. 

So what are frost quakes? Jarkko Okkonen joins us from the Geological Society of Finland. 

Sunset over an empty snowy road, Lapland, Finland, Europe (Photo by Roberto Moiola / Robert Harding RF / robertharding via AFP)

Photo: ROBERTO MOIOLA