Images showed cars and structures that had fallen 20 meters off the newly formed cliff, while many other homes remain perched perilously on the cliff edge.
Two homes in Utah slid off a cliff following a landslide and two other homes on either side of the properties were evacuated.
Jan Egil Bakkedal said he "ran for my life" into surrounding hills, and saw that his house was washed away in the landslide.
Without warning, an news photographer caught just a glimpse of the landslide as he was driving.
A steep ravine is threatening to swallow two homes in Florence, Burlington County that overlook the Delaware River.