{"id":440606,"date":"2026-01-27T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440606\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:43:10","slug":"aerial-images-capture-properties-hanging-off-cliffside-after-landslide-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440606\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerial images capture properties hanging off cliffside after landslide in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1500 people have been forced to evacuate after a 4 kilometre-long landside in an idyllic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/italy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Italian \">Italian<\/a> town left homes teetering on the edge of a cliff.<\/p>\n<p>A cyclone and accompanying rainfall caused a landslide in the Sicilian town of Niscemi on Sunday, creating a drop of up to 45 metres.<\/p>\n<p>No one has been reported injured or killed, but several homes are close to \ufeffcollapsing. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c9500a5b-3311-453e-a199-b11ccaf8194e.jpeg\"   alt=\"More than 1500 people have been forced to evacuate after a 4km-long landside in an idyllic Italian town left homes teetering on the edge of a cliffside.\"\/>The 4-kilometre landslide in Niscemi. (Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Houses that remained suspended were inevitably doomed to collapse, as were those closest to the landslide&#8217;s summit line,&#8221; \ufeffSicilian Regional Department of Civil Protection head Salvo Cocina said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is likely that most of these homes will never be recoverable, and new housing will have to be found.&#8221;\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Cocina confirmed the landslide had worsened since Sunday, leaving authorities to widen the red zone to 150 metres and order a total of about 1500 people to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffAffected residents are receiving support from local authorities and are seeking refuge in the homes of family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Massimiliano Conti has described the situation as &#8220;dire&#8221; as aerial images captured the catastrophic scenes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d978781a-6e25-42fc-9ac1-3d79d83b0453.jpeg\"   alt=\"More than 1500 people have been forced to evacuate after a 4km-long landside in an idyllic Italian town left homes teetering on the edge of a cliffside.\"\/>The landslide has worsened since Sunday.  (Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThe Italian government has allocated \u20ac100 million ($171.7 million) to support emergency efforts as it declared a national state of emergency for Sicily, Sardinia and Calabria.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister \ufeffGiorgia Meloni said her thoughts were with the affected communities.<\/p>\n<p>Sicilian President Renato Schifani is leading the emergency response and said it was crucial to take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/climate-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"climate change\">climate change<\/a> into account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this work that lies ahead, we must take climate change into account: it is a moral duty to rebuild while trying to prevent similar events from having such devastating consequences as they did this time,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to the timely interventions, we were able to protect people; now we are working to ensure that the land is protected in the future as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 1500 people have been forced to evacuate after a 4 kilometre-long landside in an idyllic Italian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-440606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}