( CNN ) -- A powerful blast leveled a house Wednesday in Boston , Massachusetts ; it was not immediately clear if anyone was injured . Boston police said on Twitter that a gas explosion was suspected and that a construction crew had been digging near the house at the time of the blast . Police said nearby homes were evacuated and people were advised to avoid that area of the Hyde Park neighborhood . Aerial footage showed an empty space amid rows of neatly lined houses . Residents told CNN affiliate WHDH they felt everything shaking around them . Windows of several houses shattered . Firefighters on the scene told WHDH they believed the two people who lived in the house were not home at the time of the blast .
Boston police say on Twitter they suspect a gas explosion . It was not clear whether anyone was injured . The blast occurred in the Hyde Park neighborhood .