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 10.5 is a Made-for-TV Movie Mini Series for NBC Disaster Movie about a series of increasingly damaging geological events first on the West Coast of the United States and then into the Midwest.The two-part miniseries opens up when an earthquake strong enough to bring down the Space Needle strikes Seattle. Later a bigger earthquake devours a train and catches some suspicions from our resident Ignored Expert scientist Samantha Hill. She suspects the quakes are only going to get bigger and will eventually sink the entirety of the West Coast. She plans to counter said problem by detonating nukes at precise locations to weld the fault closed.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })It spawned a second part titled 10.5: Apocalypse which took the audacity of the first movie and took it up to eleven.Now say the mantra again and again until you finally regain your faith in humanity.
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 Artistic License – Geology: You could make a drinking game out of how many inaccuracies both miniseries have. For example: For one thing, it is literally impossible for an earthquake with a magnitude of 10.5 on the Richter Scale to occur through normal geological processes,note A sufficiently large impact event could produce one, but then it would also do a lot of other really nasty things to the planet. because there aren't any faults long enough. A major detail about this trope; an earthquake of high magnitude is A LOT of shaking, and above 6—7 on the scale you cannot run, much less walk. at 8 - 9 you can't even stand up. Yet in the referenced 10.5 events you have people running for their lives. During an earthquake powerful enough to knock down the Space Needle, there’s even one guy who tries to escape by riding a BMX bike! It's as if the Screen Shake was really just a visual effect. Which, uh... it kind of is...Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 A major detail about this trope; an earthquake of high magnitude is A LOT of shaking, and above 6—7 on the scale you cannot run, much less walk. at 8 - 9 you can't even stand up. Yet in the referenced 10.5 events you have people running for their lives. During an earthquake powerful enough to knock down the Space Needle, there’s even one guy who tries to escape by riding a BMX bike! It's as if the Screen Shake was really just a visual effect. Which, uh... it kind of is...
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 Artistic License – Geography: Ellensburg is nowhere near Seattle.
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