Earthquake 10.5. is a 2004 disaster film which aired as a television miniseries in the United States on May 2, 2004 and May 3, 2004. The plot focuses on a series of catastrophic earthquakes along the United States west coast, culminating in one measuring 10.5 on the Richter scale. 10.5 was widely ridiculed by both reviewers and geologists; nevertheless, it received respectable Nielsen ratings.

People enjoy cataclysmic seems as something with and tells them that at some point in the not too distant future the tectonic plates will break not just in the Pacific Ring of Fire but across the world. We tend to focus on California but when day this will be a global event