The Great Los Angeles Earthquake

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake is a 1990 television film about a massive earthquake that strikes Los Angeles, California. The movie stars Joanna Kerns in the movies lead role, seismologist Clare Winslow, who tries to warn city leaders of the possibility that a powerful earthquake may strike southern California.

Clare and her staff, among whom is her assistant Jerry Soloway Ed Begley, Jr., have been studying a series of tremors that have been taking place near Los Angeles. Analyzing this information, she is able to conclude that there is a betterthanaverage chance that a massive earthquake will strike along the San Andreas Fault and cause severe damage to Los Angeles ... and the likelihood of said earthquake happening is imminent. She conducts an informative interview with Kevin Conrad Richard Masur, a sensationalist television reporter who prematurely airs the interview, creating a political firestorm and causing tension between Clare and her husband Steve Dan Lauria.Steve happens to be working closely with highpowered and wealthy real estate developer Wendell Cates Robert Ginty who faces losing money and his sociopolitical reputation from public fear of the possibility of the earthquake. Warren threatens Clare and attempts to have her fired from her job. Nevertheless, Clare tries to alert the more skeptical city and state government officials including Chad Spaulding Joe Spano of the Office of Emergency Management, but fearing political fallout and possible panic, they decide to ignore her warnings. ........

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