Earth Swallows Cars in Massive Baltimore Landslide

A possible landslide swallowed nearly a dozen cars on a street in Baltimore on Thursday morning, when one side of the street suddenly slid into a ravine and onto the train tracks below.

Witnesses say the street shook shortly after 3:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday before half of the street "collapsed into the pit" across the street.

The probable landslide comes following a day of heavy rainfall in the region. The Baltimore area received 4 to 5 inches of rain on Wednesday, with flood warnings issued in parts of the area.

"The wall, the lights, the cars–everything parked on that side of the street gone," one man told the local CBS affiliate.

“We heard the rumble,” said Jim Correlli, a manager of a storage company in the area. “We jumped up and looked and there was nothing (but) the hole. It had all caved in: the trees, the lamppost, the stone wall.”

No injuries were reported in the incident, which was initially reported by local media as a sinkhole.

The Associated Press reports the cause of the landslide is under investigation, and that cleanup is already underway.

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