SAN ANDREAS

Raymond "Ray" Gaines (Dwayne Johnson) is a Los Angeles Fire

Department helicopter-rescue pilot. In the midst of a divorce from his
estranged wife, Emma (Carla Gugino), he calls his daughter Blake (Alexandra
Daddario) to discuss their upcoming trip to San Francisco.
Meanwhile, Caltech seismologist Lawrence Hayes (Paul Giamatti) and his
colleague Dr. Kim Park (Will Yun Lee) are at the Hoover Dam making a
breakthrough in earthquake prediction when an unknown fault nearby
ruptures, triggering a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that collapses the dam and
kills Park in the process when he stays on the dam to save a little girl. When
Ray is called into work, Blake reluctantly decides to go with her mother
Emma's new boyfriend, Daniel Riddick (Ioan Gruffudd), a wealthy real estate
developer, to San Francisco where he is completing a downtown high-rise
building.
Hayes discovers that the San Andreas Fault is starting to shift, causing a
massive 9.1 earthquake that starts ripping apart major cities along the fault
line. At the same time, Emma is having lunch with Daniel's sister Susan (Kylie
Minogue) when the quake hitsLos Angeles, destroying much of the city with
Susan among its heavy casualties. Ray is able to save Emma, and they
barely escape the city onboard his helicopter. Much of Southern California
becomes affected by the quake. In San Francisco, Daniel brings Blake to his
office building. Blake waits for Daniel in the lobby, where she meets Ben
(Hugo Johnstone-Burt), an engineering student from the United
Kingdom seeking employment at the office, and his little brother, Ollie (Art
Parkinson). Daniel returns and attempts to leave the office with Blake, but
the two become trapped in their car in the parking garage of the building
after the string of earthquakes begin to strike the city, partially collapsing the
garage. Daniel leaves the car in search of help, but flees in terror, leaving
Blake behind. She is found by Ben and Ollie, who help free her from the car
and escape the collapsing building. The trio find a working phone line and
Blake calls Ray, who begins to fly toward San Francisco with Emma to save
her.
While enroute, the engine in Ray's helicopter suddenly fails, forcing him to
make an emergency crash-landing into a mall below them in Bakersfield,
where massive looting is taking place. Among the chaos, Ray steals a Ford F150 from the parking lot, and the couple resume their journey on the road,
but find they are trapped by the expanding fault line. The couple comes
across an older couple broken down on the side of the road, whom they learn
own an airplane. The older couple agrees to give them the keys to the plane
in exchange for their vehicle, and the two continue to head north in the air.
Meanwhile, Blake, Ben and Ollie try to find a spot in the city where Ray and
Emma can save them; seeing that their planned rendezvous point, Coit
Tower, is already engulfed by flames. With help from news reporter Serena
(Archie Panjabi), Hayes is able to warn others of a much bigger earthquake in
San Francisco, just in time before it hits; becoming the largest earthquake
ever in history, recorded as a 9.6.

Ray and Emma eventually arrive in San Francisco, abandoning their aircraft
and parachuting into AT&T Park just as the aftershocks continue to destroy
the city. They commandeer a boat and hear a warning over the radio that a
tsunami is approaching the city. Along with other evacuees with boats of
their own, they are able to get over the incoming wave near the Golden Gate
Bridge. Daniel, who is on the bridge, is killed when a cargo ship slices the
bridge in half and a loose shipping container crushes him. The tsunami floods
the city, causing massive casualties and knocking over several buildings.
Blake, Ben, and Ollie manage to run into Daniel's building moments before
the water hits. They move up floors and manage to signal Ray and Emma,
who are searching nearby for Blake. As they see the trio, the building starts
sinking into the ground, causing water to flood the building. Ben and Ollie are
able to escape, but Blake becomes trapped in the rising water, runs out of
air, and drowns before Ray can get to her. Emma crashes the boat through
the building's thick window panes in an attempt to get everyone on board
before escaping as the building completely collapses. Now aboard the small
boat, Ray performsCPR on Blake and finally revives her after several minutes.
The five make it to a relief camp in Marin County. The now reconciled Ray
and Emma, along with Blake, Ben, and Ollie, talk about their future as the
sun slowly sets on the now destroyed Bay Area, now swarmed with different
military organizations and rescue vehicles initiating the relief process. The
camera pans out, revealing the quake has changed the geography of the San
Francisco Bay Area

SAN ANDREAS

The San Andreas Fault awakens, unleashing back-to-back jolts that

leave a trail of misery from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Skyscrapers
crumble. Fires erupt. The letters of the Hollywood sign topple. Tsunami waves
swamp the Golden Gate Bridge.
The San Andreas has long been considered one of the most dangerous
earthquake faults because of its length. At nearly 800 miles long, it cuts
through California like a scar and is responsible for some of the largest
shakers in state history. In the film, opening this Friday, a previously
unknown fault near the Hoover Dam in Nevada ruptures and jiggles the San
Andreas. Southern California is rocked by a powerful magnitude-9.1 quake
followed by an even stronger magnitude-9.6 in Northern California. The San
Andreas is notorious for producing big ones, but a magnitude-9 or larger is
virtually impossible because the fault is not long or deep enough, U.S.
Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough told the Associated Press.
Despite the implausible plot, however, she said the San Andreas will indeed
break again, and without warning
The lesson: It doesn't take a magnitude-9 or greater to wreak havoc.
Researchers calculated a magnitude-7.8 would cause 1,800 deaths and
50,000 injuries. Hundreds of old brick buildings and concrete structures and
a few high-rise steel buildings would collapse. Computer models show the
San Andreas is capable of producing a magnitude-8.3 quake, but anything
larger is dubious. In the film, Lawrence Hayes, a fictional seismologist at
California Institute of Technology, notices spikes in 'magnetic pulses' that
light up California like a Christmas tree, heralding a monster quake. Despite
a century of research, in reality earthquake prediction remains elusive.
Scientists can't predict when a jolt is coming and are generally pessimistic
about ever having that ability. Every warning sign scrutinized - animal
behaviour, weather patterns, electromagnetic signals, atmospheric
observations, levels of radon gas in soil or groundwater - has failed. We wish
it were as simple as the movie portrays. It isn't. Researchers have scoured
every imaginable signal trying to find reliable precursors, but nothing has
panned out,'