(2 copies in library) MEMBER REVIEW: Watch at your own risk. This 2009 Syfy production starts in West Virginia, just the place you would expect a big earthquake fault, right? It starts with routine blasting for mining, which triggers a megafault with gigantic cracks in the earth, people falling in and all sorts of bad stuff. Then the star is lecturing about earthquake preparedness and an earthquake hits DC with catastrophic damage, including the Washington Monument falling down. Reality aside (and they certainly threw reality aside), it is a standard disaster movie. The cg effects of gigantic cracks moving across the landscape are good. Not at all realistic, but good. The gas and power blow out before the buildings fall down. “We have never seen an earthquake like this before,” that is a gigantic understatement. The earthquakes have spread across the Midwest. The whole world is shifting. Seems the army has developed a tectonic weapon that freezes and crystallizes the water table and creates quakes invisibly. So if they trigger a quake in just the right spot, it will stop the megaquake that was triggered by the blasting. “Stop this truck! No way, there is an earthquake on our tail!” They do stop the megaquake, but wait, Yellowstone caldera has awakened. The tectonic weapon destabilized to the mantle, and the magma from Yellowstone has invaded the aquifer. People spontaneously combust in the Yellowstone area because of the magma. So if they can create another Grand Canyon in the coal fields of Wyoming before the quake hits Yellowstone, they can stop that too. Absurdity upon absurdity.