Rattlesnake Ridge

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.

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

But experts like Department of Transportation Geologist James Struthers says while the crack is growing the dirt isn't moving any faster this month than it was last month.

The Yakima Valley Office of Emergency Management Wednesday afternoon changed the evacuation level for Thorp Rd

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."

Geologists with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources say they're not worried about a big landslide happening anytime soon.

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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.

Trevor Contreras a geologist with the State Department of Natural Resources says the majority of the land continues to move to the South towards the nearby quarry.