Why does thunder shake a house?

Answer 1

It moves because thunder is just sound caused by lightning super heating air and sound is just motion through particles in the air. So basically your house is being hit by tons of atoms moving from a lightning strike somewhere in the sky.

Answer 2

Your house will shake depending the closeness of the lightning. Thunder is a sonic boom that comes from the rapid heating of the air around a lightning strike. Sonic booms cause massive shaking to nearby objects (your house). This will happen if the lightning is very close.

Answer 3

Whenever there are thunders, huge amount of energy dispatch takes place, so there will be a lot of disturbance created in the air medium. Thus the energy exerted over the air molecules scatter them at a very high speed and the molecules strike the window glasses. In short, the energy waves of the thunder hit the windows making them shatter. Also, in some cases, the resonance factor comes into picture. Whenever the oscillating frequency of two objects match, there will be resonance formed in between them and both vibrate with equal frequency. Thus, when thunder frequency or any frequency of any loud noise matches with that of our windows, the shatter.

Answer 4

Thunder shakes a house because it is the sound produced by the rapid expansion of air surrounding a lightning bolt. The intense energy released by lightning causes the air around it to heat up and expand rapidly, creating shock waves that we perceive as thunder. The vibrations from these shock waves can shake objects, including houses, especially if they are close to the lightning strike.