10.5: Apocalypse

• Oliver Hudson: Will Malloy
• Garcelle Beauvais: Natalie Warner
• Carlos Bernard: Dr. Miguel Garcia
• Beau Bridges: President Hollister
• Dean Cain: Brad Malloy
• David Cubitt: Dr. Jordan Fisher
• Kim Delaney: Dr. Samantha Hill
• Frank Langella: Dr. Earl Hill
• Carly Pope: Laura Malloy
• Barbara Eve Harris: Stacy Warner, FEMA
• Peter Outerbridge: Alec Becker
• John Cassini: Sean Morris
• Melissa Anderson: First Lady Megan Hollister
• Tamara Hope: Amy Hollister

10.5 - Apocalypse is an American television miniseries directed by John Lafia from 2006 and the continuation of 10.5 - The earth trembles ( 2004).

Action

A massive earthquake that reached on the Richter scale has a value of 10.5, caused on the North American continent a crack in the earth's crust. Geologists warn of a drifting apart of the continental plates. The auftuende to ditch that threatens to procreate coming from the north to the Gulf of Mexico, filled with lava and threatened two nuclear power plants.

Through a targeted blast of natural gas deposits in the immediate vicinity before the nuclear reactors, he manages a team of scientists, the " crack " redirect. Nevertheless, the trench reaches the coast in the southern U.S. and divides the continent into two parts after seawater fills the trench and thus forms a "street" in north-south direction.

Background

Many theories represented in the film in geology are not scientifically proven or fictitious. Plate tectonics is in a perpetual cycle; reverses direction like in the movie there is not. Indeed, grave breaches and new plate boundaries can occur, but this usually happens over thousands or millions of years (eg, the Great African grave breach ). Furthermore, no known method to predict geological processes to the minute. In addition, geological movements can only be heavily influenced by detonations.

The nuclear power plant affected Red Plains is fictitious. In fact, in the southern Texas, however, many large and important American nuclear power plants.

Reviews

" ( TV ) continuation of a wayward disaster spectacle that with garbled dialogues, ridiculous special effects and disinterested performers still outdoes its predecessor and has besides a good measure little to offer to unintentional humor. "