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January 30, 2014 05:17 am GMT

Massive Landslide Decimates a 300-Year-Old Barn in Italy

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An enormous boulder plunged from a height 2,624 feet and plowed through a 300-year-old barn in a small town in northern Italy on Jan. 21, destroying and leveling it. A piece of a mountain detached from a cliff, turning into several boulders that measured between 3,000 and 4,000 cubic meters.

The house attached to the barn in the town of Ronchi di Termeno (Tramin) of was also hit by another boulder, but wasn't majorly damaged. Luckily, no one was injured or killed by the landslide, but the tenants of the house, the Trebo family, were forced to evacuate, according to local news reports

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