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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 on 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. Image File history File links 10-5_logo. ...
Kim Delaney (born November 29, 1961 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. ...
Beau Bridges (born Lloyd Vernet Bridges III on December 9, 1941), is an American actor. ...
John Schneider (right) as Bo Duke with Tom Wopat as Luke Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard John Richard Schneider (born April 8, 1960 in Mount Kisco, New York) is an American actor who shot to fame during the 1980s as Bo Duke in the American television series The Dukes...
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It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in...
A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ...
Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earths surface. ...
The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ...
Old fault exposed by roadcut near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. ...
The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ...
10.5 was widely derided by both reviewers and geologists, but nevertheless received respectable Nielsen Ratings. Reuters reported that 20.4 million viewers watched the television movie. A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth. ...
When TV viewers or entertainment professionals in the United States mention ratings they are generally referring to Nielsen Ratings, a system developed by the New York City-based firm Nielsen Media Research to determine which shows television viewers watch at what times. ...
A television movie (also known as a TV film, TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, movie of the week (MOTW or MOW), single drama, telemovie, telefilm, or two-hour-long drama) is a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network. ...
A sequel, 10.5: Apocalypse, was originally planned to be released in November, 2005, but NBC has decided to delay it until sometime in 2006. A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same universe but at a later time. ...
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Cast Kim Delaney (born November 29, 1961 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. ...
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John Schneider (right) as Bo Duke with Tom Wopat as Luke Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard John Richard Schneider (born April 8, 1960 in Mount Kisco, New York) is an American actor who shot to fame during the 1980s as Bo Duke in the American television series The Dukes...
Dulé Hill as The West Wings Charlie Young. ...
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Geological errors - Geologists are depicted as able to accurately predict earthquakes over very short intervals of time.
- Nuclear explosions can't "seal" faults.
- In the film, geologists come to believe an earthquake is only an aftershock when they can't find an epicenter. In real life, aftershocks 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, would likely have collapsed long before the Space Needle.
Aftershocks are earthquakes in the same region of the mainshock (generally within a few rupture length) but of smaller magnitude and which occur with in a pattern that follows Omoris law. ...
The epicenter is directly above the earthquakes focus. ...
Alternations and misspellings of names and words - During a news broadcast in the film, "martial law" is misspelled as "marshal law." It is not clear whether this was intentional or not.
- Since the filmmakers never received permission to use the term "Space Needle," which is trademarked, it is spelled "Spaceneedle" in the film.
- For the British release, the film was retitled Earthquake 10.5.
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Other notes - 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.
- Delaney's character is named Samantha Hill, but she goes by "Sam." Therefore, her name is obviously a play on "Sam Hill."
- Beau Bridges would later play Hank Landry in Stargate SG-1, staring alongside another female scientist named Samantha who goes by "Sam" (Amanda Tapping's Samantha Carter). Beau Bridges also played the role of Carl Hickey, Earl Hickey's father in two episodes (Cost Dad the Election, and Lost Dad's car) the NBC series My Name is Earl.
- Some people believe the film is unintentionally campy and can be enjoyed as a comedy.
- In one scene, John Schneider drives his 4WD vehicle off the road and through some woods. You can hear him say "I forgot how much fun this was," probably a reference to his charater (Bo Duke) on The Dukes of Hazzard
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The term camp—normally used as an adjective or a noun, even though earliest recorded uses employed it mainly as a verb—refers to the deliberate and sophisticated use of kitsch, mawkish or corny themes and styles in art, clothing or conversation. ...
Comedy is the use of humor in the form of theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. ...
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