Nine homes in the area have been lost to the ocean in the past four years because of rising seas and storms that erode shorelines.

Cape Hatteras National Seashore said the unoccupied oceanfront home fell early Sept. 20 in Rodanthe, a roughly 215-mile drive southeast from Raleigh. The house is the eighth to collapse in the area during the past four years.

For the second time in 24 hours, someone’s home has collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean along North Carolina’s Outer Banks, according to the National Park Service. The latest was at 23009 G. A. Kohler Court in Rodanthe, which vanished after sunset Friday, Sept. 20, Cape Hatteras National Seashore reports.