At least one person was killed in a residential building collapsed after the explosion, police said in New York.
Five-story apartment building collapsed at the intersection of Park Avenue and 116th Street in East Harlem.
Minor injuries received at least 15 people.
At the scene, visible smoke, firefighters trying to pour water over the smoldering wreckage. Collapsed building stood near the railroad tracks, and therefore the movement of trains from Grand Central Station suspended.
Authorities also reported disconnecting gas supply in the area. In many shattered windows of nearby houses. New York Fire Service carried the fire to the category of the most dangerous.
Local resident Ashley Rivera told a reporter of the newspaper New York Daily News, that within a few weeks, she could smell gas in the vicinity of the collapsed house.
"We saw people flying out of the window - it's my neighbors," - she said. Another eyewitness, who works nearby, told reporters that he heard two loud explosions that shook the window of his shop.
"I heard a loud double whammy - boom boom - says Mitch Abreu. - He shook the whole neighborhood. In another shop on our street flew out the window. All this was like a death of the twin towers [the World Trade Center in 2001]. Everywhere People were covered with dust and closing their mouths with handkerchiefs. "
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