First of all this TV movie is not that believable. There are things in this that will not happen but you must understand this is made for entertainment purposes only. This is fiction and not a documentary. So it doesn't have to be believable or it's science does not have to be correct. This has pretty good special effects for a made for TV Movie/Mini Series and not too bad acting though it maybe cheesy at times. It has some good actors in it like Fred Ward (Tremors & Tremors 2), Beau Bridges (Stargate SG-1), Jonathan Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard and Smallville) etc. which is always a plus. So overall this movie is not too bad.

The usual disaster movie with its host of characters with their inter-personal relationships being shown as they prepare to battle a disaster. Three earthquakes in one day in the western part of the country may be too much to take, but this is what makes for an interesting story.The governor of California is a woman who is divorced and is in night clothes as her ex-husband and daughter go off for a camping trip.Beau Bridges shows emotion as our nervous president. The FEMA guy is not at all like Michael Brown of the Bush Administration. Once he realizes what's going on, he literally throws himself into the solution which will cost him his life.The problem with the film is that the characters are terribly cliché- the doctor and FEMA director, estranged as well as a surgeon and his wife. It seems that disasters always brings out the best in people. People come together as a cohesive unit to fight off the evil elements. We've just seen so much of this before.

I loved this show. I watched its premiere in 2004 and recently just caught it again on the Scifi channel. Watching the second time, the one thing that kept running through my head was, "Is this directed by the same person who directs 24?" The similarities are incredible. From the way it's shot, to the camera movement, to the triple boxes. They both even have numbers as names! Can anyone shed any light on this? Is there a real connection between 10.5 and 24? Thanks!I'm not even a big fan of 24, but I really did notice similarities. I think my favorite 24 episode actually aired on South Park! hehehe

I have seen this movie once, but I just don't understand how any of the things that happen in the movie are physically possible, because they probably aren't. Let's see, there is a 7.9 Earthquake in Seattle, a man happens to be able to perform stunts while riding a bike down the streets and tries to out run the Space Needle and also manages to stay on his bike and ride it like there is no shaking at all. But this is only the beginning of the unrealistic stuff you see in the film. Later in Reading, California an 8.4 Earthquake occurs and a rift opens up into the ground and you also see a train. Now instead of having the hole open up and swallow the train right there, they decide to use a even funnier method and have it exactly parallel with the tracks then eventually have gravity pull the train in, also you might probably notice that the train is going the exact same speed as the earthquake to. Later in San Francisco a 9.2 Earthquake occurs causing the Golden Gate bride to collapse and what do you see, people standing up and running. If a 8.0 earthquake occurred in real life people would be immediately thrown from the ground. But the height of the unrealistic story plot is when the 10.5 earthquake hits, and practically destroys everything in California, but everything around the state is almost completely unharmed how do you explain this. Even tough they didn't do a good job with the realism it is kind of fun to watch and the science isn't as bad as the movie science in Core.