Many of the evacuees were expected to stay with family or friends, though local leaders have received offers from concerned neighbors to provide temporary housing. But measurements indicated a “strong acceleration over a large area” in recent days, and “up to 2 million cubic meters of rock material will collapse or slide in the coming seven to 24 days,” officials said.

The mountain and the rocks on it have been moving since the last Ice Age, local officials say. The centuries-old village straddles German- and Romansch-speaking parts of the eastern Graubunden region, sitting southwest of Davos at an altitude of about 1,150 meters (about 3,800 feet).

on Friday but could return to the village from time to time starting Saturday, depending on the risk level, but not stay overnight. Local leaders said during a town hall and a media event Tuesday that residents would have to leave by 6 p.m. GENEVA (AP) - Authorities in eastern Switzerland ordered residents of the tiny village of Brienz to evacuate by Friday evening because geology experts say a mass of 2 million cubic meters of Alpine rock looming overhead could break loose and spill down in the coming weeks.

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