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They're hoping people who post information in the future will use the correct information that there's no current threat to public safety.

He says the slide is slowing down and continues to decrease in movement everyday. It was first detected in 2017.

Horace Ward is the Senior Emergency Planner who tells KIT News the rate of the slide started to slow in May and ever since it hasn't increased in speed.

The seismometer is worth about $18,000 and went missing after a routine inspection of the site which has been closed to the public for weeks.

The Senior Emergency Planner Horace Ward says they quickly checked the area earlier and found no change in the land on top of the ridge.

And the experts still say it's not expected to slide for months or years.

Struthers says they've seen the same thing happen with other landslides around the state. "Slides that exhibit movement over a many year period are not unusual. We have other slides in the state that we monitor and have monitored over a period of 5 to 10 years."

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eff Emmons Director of the Yakima Valley Office of Emergency Management told reporters Tuesday. "The landslide is still moving at a constant rate of between 1.6 and 1.7 feet per week.

The land is still moving at 1.7 feet per week to the South.