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The latest measure shows the slide now moving at .45 feet per week and as slow at .006 feet per week.

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.

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."

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.

Director Jeff Emmons told reporters the office is fully ready for every aspect of the event.

there's plenty of experts on hand making solid science backed predictions. Most say the land will slide to the south into the existing rock quarry.