THIS is the moment a huge El Paso, Texas explosion was captured on a Ring Doorbell camera after a massive construction site blast occurred in Mexico.

Ring Doorbell footage captured the moment an explosion was heard and felt by El Paso residents on the morning of December 30, 2021.

The loud sound was captured in a four-second video and shared on YouTube, where it has since obtained more than 6,000 views.

The Thursday blast — which was felt and heard by people in El Paso's eastside and Lower Valley — took place at a construction site in Mexico, The Jaurez news outlet El Diario reported, according to KVIA.

According to the report, the blast took place near where a construction crew was working with explosives.

Workers were reportedly working to extract material on a hill along Camino Real when the explosion occurred.

And approximately 20 nearby homes were damaged after the incident, Mexican officials said.

No serious injuries or deaths have been reported.

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First responders started getting calls about the mysterious boom around 2pm local time.

At the time of the explosion, numerous residents of the area reported that it "sounded like an earthquake."

The noise was also heard and felt in the nearby City of Socorro, according to a city representative.

It also puzzled El Paso police and fire rescue, with neither agency immediately able to say what caused the noise.

"The El Paso Police Department has received reports of a loud boom or explosion. At this time there has not been confirmation of a location or reasoning for it and the El Paso Police Department is still looking into the situation," the police department said in a Tweet.

The large boom echoed through El Paso, the Lower Valley, Socorro, Horizon City, and other points of East El Paso County, according to local news station KTSM.

"We have multiple calls reporting a loud boom and we have multiple units investigating at all the different locations callers reported," Enrique Dueñas-Aguilar with the El Paso Fire Department told The US Sun.

"However, we haven’t found anything yet. It is also a possibility it may have happened on the other side of the border. We are still checking."

Meanwhile, people reacted to the blast on social media, with one person questioning if it was a sonic boom from military aircraft.

Another person posted, "Anyone else felt a big boom or house shaking just now? I’m in east El Paso."

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