10.5 (miniseries)
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| Directed by | John Lafia |
| Written by | Christopher Canaan John Lafia Ronnie Christensen |
| Produced by | Gary Pearl Lisa Richardson |
| Starring | Kim Delaney Beau Bridges John Schneider Dulé Hill Fred Ward Kaley Cuoco |
| Distributed by | NBC (USA) |
Running time | 165 min. |
| Budget | Unknown |
10.5 was a 2004 television miniseries directed by John Lafia and with a script written by Christopher Canaan, John Lafia and Ronnie Christensen. The plot centers around a catastrophic series of earthquakes along the United States' West Coast cumulating in one measuring 10.5 on the Richter scale. In an attempt to prevent further damage, the characters race to "weld" the fault using nuclear bombs.
10.5 was widely ridiculed by both reviewers and geologists, but nevertheless received respectable Nielsen Ratings. Reuters reported that 20.4 million viewers watched the television movie.
A sequel, 10.5: Apocalypse, is planned for release in 2005.
Cast
- Kim Delaney : Dr. Samantha Hill
- Beau Bridges : President Paul Hollister
- John Schneider : Clark Williams
- Dulé Hill : Owen Hunter
- Fred Ward : Roy Nolan
- Kaley Cuoco : Amanda Williams
Landmarks whose destruction was depicted in the film
- Space Needle (Seattle, Washington)
- Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, California)
- Hollywood Sign (Los Angeles, California)
- Library Tower (Los Angeles, California)
Geological errors
- Geologists are depicted as accurately predicting earthquakes over very short intervals of time.
- Nuclear explosions can't seal faults.
- In the film, geologists come to believe an earthquake is only aftershock when they can't find an epicenter. In real life, aftershock have epicenters.
- To create a 10.5 earthquake, the fault needed would have to stretch around the entire globe.
- When the Seattle Space Needle collapses, it falls on another building. This building, both intact and unreinforced, clearly would have collapsed long before the Space Needle.
Other notes
- During a news broadcast in the film, "martial law" is misspelled as "marshal law." It is not clear whether this was intentional or not.
- The film basically ignores the state of Oregon with every earthquake depicted in the film taking place in either Washington or California. This is probably due to Oregon's lack of famous landmarks; whcih you cant blame them for, everyone likes famous landmarks being destroyed.