Overview
- The slide stretches about 4 km with local vertical drops of 6–7 meters and a preliminarily mapped area near 1 km², according to early surveys.
- It remains active with new tension cracks reported, and authorities have imposed a 150-meter no‑go zone along with road closures and school shutdowns.
- More than 1,500 residents have been evacuated with no reported casualties, and civil protection leaders say some houses are no longer habitable.
- Italy declared a 12‑month state of emergency for Sicily, Sardinia and Calabria and set aside an initial €100 million for urgent needs.
- Sicily’s regional estimate of storm damage has risen to about €2 billion as experts point to saturated sand‑and‑clay geology and prior red‑zone warnings.