❗️⚠️🇮🇹 – The scale of this landslide is staggering.
A massive landslide is devastating parts of Niscemi, a hilltop town in southern Sicily.
Triggered by relentless heavy rains from Cyclone Harry, the slide has created a 4 km (2.5-mile) chasm, with some sections dropping up to… pic.twitter.com/fn8CaXg10O
— 🔥🗞The Informant (@theinformant_x) January 28, 2026
A landslide in Sicily has left houses dangling over the edge of a precipice and has forced the evacuation of 1,500 people.
Photographs and videos showed how the 2.5-mile-long landslide sheared off a vast quantity of rock and soil on the outskirts of the town of Niscemi.
The landslide happened after southern Italy was hit by a cyclone, bringing days of storms and torrential rain.
The town previously sat on a curved bluff that sloped down onto fields below, but it now perches on the edge of a sheer cliff.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sicilian-town-verge-collapse-landslide-190902668.html