10.5
Directed by	John Lafia
Produced by	Gary Pearl Lisa Richardson
Written by	Christopher Canaan John Lafia Ronnie Christensen
Starring	Kim Delaney Beau Bridges John Schneider Dulé Hill Fred Ward Kaley Cuoco
Distributed by	NBC & USA Networks (USA)
Release date(s)	May 2, 2004 (USA)
Running time	165 min.
Language	English
Budget	Unknown
IMDb profile

10.5 was a U.S. 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. ... John Lafia is an American film and television writer, director, and producer. ... John Lafia is an American film and television writer, director, and producer. ... Kim Delaney (born November 29, 1961 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. ... Beau Bridges (born Lloyd Vernet Bridges III on December 9, 1941 in Los Angeles, California), 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... Dulé Hill as The West Wings Charlie Young. ... Ward in Miami Blues (1990) Frederick Ward (born December 30, 1942) is an American actor. ... Kaley Christine Cuoco (born November 30, 1985) is an American actress best known for her role as Bridget Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules. ... NBC, (Formerly an acronym for the National Broadcasting Company until 2004), is an American television and radio network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... The USA Network is a popular cable TV network based in the United States with about 87 million household subscribers as of 2003. ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... John Lafia is an American film and television writer, director, and producer. ... An earthquake is a phenomenon that results from and is powered by the sudden release of stored energy that radiates seismic waves. ... The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ... Fault in metamorphosed strata near Adelaide, Australia Geologic faults or simply faults are planar rock fractures which show evidence of relative movement. ... 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 and planets of the solar system (see planetary geology). ... When TV viewers or entertainment professionals in the United States mention ratings they are generally referring to Nielsen Ratings, a system developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. ... 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 had decided to delay it until May 21st and 23rd, 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. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... NBC, (Formerly an acronym for the National Broadcasting Company until 2004), is an American television and radio network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...

Cast

• Kim Delaney : Dr. Samantha "Sam" Hill
• Beau Bridges : President Paul Hollister
• John Schneider : Clark Williams
• Dulé Hill : Owen Hunter
• Fred Ward : Roy Nolan
• David Cubitt : Dr. Jordan Fisher
• Kaley Cuoco : Amanda Williams
• Iris Graham : Zoe Cameron
• Robin C : 10.5

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Landmarks whose destruction were depicted in the film

• Space Needle (Seattle, Washington)
• Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, California)
• Hollywood Sign (Los Angeles, California)
• Library Tower (Los Angeles, California)
• All of Los Angeles

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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.
• The legs of the Space Needle were shown as concrete. They're actually made of steel, not concrete.
• 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.^[1]
• 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.
• An earthquake fault is depicted as chasing down a train, although fault ruptures occur at speeds topping 7,000 miles per hour.^{[citation needed]}

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).
• 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 character (Bo Duke) on The Dukes of Hazzard.
• The television footage of the Seattle earthquake used in 10.5 was actually from the Northridge Earthquake of 1994 involving the collapse of the Golden State Freeway and CA-14 freeway and the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989 involving the fires of the Marina District and the Cypress Freeway Interstate 880.
• Although the earthquakes depicted in 10.5 can not happen at their proposed strength it is interesting to note that there is a real giant fault running from the coast of northern California to British Columbia named the Cascadia subduction zone that if ruptured could unleash a 9.0 magnitude earthquake that would devastate the area and cause similar damage to Seattle as portrayed in the film.

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Reference

1. ^ 10.5 (HTML). 10.5 - Separating Fact from Fiction (2004). Retrieved on 2006-05-21.

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External link

• 10.5 at the Internet Movie Database