10.5 (miniseries)
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10.5 Poster
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| Written by |
Christopher Canaan John Lafia Ronnie Christensen |
| Directed by | John Lafia |
| Starring |
Kim Delaney Beau Bridges John Schneider Dulé Hill Fred Ward David Cubitt Kaley Cuoco Iris Graham |
| Theme music composer | Lee Holdridge |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Gary Pearl Lisa Richardson |
| Cinematography | David Foreman |
| Editor(s) | Don Brochu Michael N. Knue |
| Running time | 165 minutes |
| Distributor | NBC & USA Networks |
| Release | |
| Original release | May 2 – May 3, 2004 |
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| Followed by | 10.5: Apocalypse |
10.5 is a 2004 disaster film directed by John Lafia which aired as a television miniseries in the United States on May 2, 2004 and May 3, 2004. The plot focuses on a series of catastrophic earthquakes along the United States' west coast, culminating in one measuring 10.5 on the Richter scale.
10.5 was widely ridiculed by both reviewers and geologists; nevertheless, it received respectable Nielsen ratings.
The first part of the miniseries aired on May 2, 2004 and the second one aired on May 3. A sequel, 10.5: Apocalypse was aired on May 21, 2006 and May 23, 2006.
The film begins in the Seattle, Washington area with increasingly severe earthquake activity. A quake of magnitude 7.9 is measured at the Earthquake centre, where Dr. Samantha Hill takes command, displacing Dr. Jordan Fisher. U.S. President Paul Hollister and FEMA Director Roy Nolan are informed about the situation.
A magnitude 8.4 earthquake opens a crack which engulfs an entire train east of Redding, California. As a result, Governor Carla Williams, who has just seen her daughter and ex-husband off on a camping trip, agrees to help the Governor of Washington. Amanda Williams and her father Clark Williams arrive at a town named Browning, where everything is covered in a thick red haze. They discover a car with a dead family inside, and are nearly trapped in quicksand.
Roy Nolan constructs a task force of the best geologists and seismologists, including Dr. Fisher and Dr. Hill. Dr. Hill mentions her Hidden Fault theory, and is eventually given permission to prove it. She and Dr. Fisher visit a lake, where they see some animals that died from carbon monoxide poisoning, and are almost poisoned themselves.
Back at the Task Force Center, Dr. Hill predicts that the next quake will be near San Francisco, California. It is deemed too risky to evacuate the entirety of San Francisco, which is eventually destroyed by a 9.2 magnitude earthquake. After that Dr. Hill predicts the next quake will happen at the San Andreas fault, which would wipe out the West Coast in its present shape killing 50 million people on the way. Dr. Hill hypothesizes that they could "weld" the fault shut by letting it experience immense heat, which could only be created with nuclear bombs.
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