ANCHORAGE, Alaska — There were no reports of injuries, but four homes were lost to explosions or fire following Sunday’s magnitude-7.1 earthquake in Alaska.

Alaska’s state seismologist, Michael West, called the early morning quake the strongest in the state’s south-central region in decades. Alaska often has larger or more powerful earthquakes, such as a 7.9 last year in the remote Aleutian Islands.

The earthquake was widely felt by Anchorage residents. But the Anchorage and Valdez police departments said they hadn’t received any reports of injury or significant damage.

Andrew Sayers, 26, of Kasilof said, “The house started to shake violently. The TV we were watching fell over; stuff fell off the walls,” he said. “Dishes were crashing, and we sprinted toward the doorway.”

Later, when he was driving he came across a stretch of road that was damaged in the quake.