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Release year: 2015

Storyline

In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey with his ex-wife across the state in order to rescue his daughter.

Top credits

Directors

Brad Peyton

Writers

Cast

Dwayne Johnson — Raymond Gaines
Carla Gugino — Emma Gaines
Alexandra Daddario — Blake Gaines
Colton Haynes — Joby O'Leary

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Did you know

• Director Brad Peyton brought in Thomas Jordan, USC professor and director of the Southern California Earthquake Center to fact check the script for plausibility. Though both Peyton and lead actor Dwayne Johnson contend that the science portrayed in the film is accurate, Thomas Jordan was quoted as saying "I gave them free advice, some of which they took... but much of which they didn't - magnitude 9's are too big for the San Andreas, and it can't produce a big tsunami."

• Jacob O'Connor, a 10-year-old boy from Michigan, saved his younger brother, Dylan, from drowning by using a technique he learned from watching Ray save Blake. Dwayne Johnson called O'Connor a hero.

• It is possible for a Nevada quake to trigger an L.A. quake, and for an L.A. quake to trigger a San Francisco quake. The 1992 Landers earthquake, a 7.3 in California's Mojave Desert, triggered a 5.3 quake in Nevada the next day. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake triggered magnitude 5 earthquakes the next day in Santa Monica, Oregon, and Nevada.