BUFFALO (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) -- A magnitude 3.8 earthquake shook upstate New York on Monday morning, officials said.
The quake struck at 6:15 a.m. with the epicenter about 10 miles southeast of Buffalo in West Seneca, New York, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Earthquake Canada also detected the trembler as a 4.2 magnitude quake.
No major damage had been reported, according to Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz.
Poloncarz said the quake was felt as far north as Niagara Falls and as far south as Orchard Park, with a radius of at least 30 miles.
“It felt like a car hit my house in Buffalo,” Poloncarz tweeted. “I jumped out of bed.”
The U.S. Geological Survey had received more than 2,600 reports about the quake as of 8 a.m.
Small earthquakes are not unusual in upstate New York but are rarely felt as strongly.
Seismologist Yaareb Altaweel said it was the region's strongest quake in at least 40 years.
More than 5,000 miles away on Monday morning, a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkey and Syria, killing more than 2,300 people, with the death toll expected to rise. A USGS spokesperson told the Associated Press that there is no connection between the two events.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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