The pair encounters a couple broken down on the side of the road shortly before the San Andreas Fault, which has torn a large fissure through the highway and extends for the perceivable length of the fault in either direction. Amid the chaos of looting, Ray steals a truck to continue the journey. Ray and Emma attempt to reach San Francisco in Ray's helicopter until it suffers a gearbox failure, forcing them to make an emergency landing at a shopping mall in Bakersfield. Ben Taylor, a British engineer seeking employment at Daniel's firm, and Ben's younger brother Ollie rescue Blake, and they reach Chinatown, successfully calling her parents for help. Panicking, Daniel leaves Blake in an act of cowardice. Rubble from the collapsing parking garage pins her in Daniel's car. Meanwhile, their daughter Blake has been visiting San Francisco with Emma's new boyfriend, Daniel at that moment, an earthquake strikes the city. When a 9.1-magnitude earthquake devastates Los Angeles and San Francisco, Ray Gaines, a Los Angeles Fire Department helicopter rescue pilot going through a divorce from his wife Emma, finds himself rescuing her from a skyscraper in Los Angeles. He begins racing to warn the population of California, along with his students Alexi and Phoebe and reporter Serena Johnson. Hayes discovers that the entire San Andreas Fault is shifting and will soon cause several massive earthquakes, potentially destroying cities along the fault line. Park sacrifices himself to save a young girl and gets swept away by the water. It grossed $474 million worldwide.Ĭaltech seismologist Dr Lawrence Hayes and his colleague Dr Kim Park are at Hoover Dam testing a new earthquake prediction model when a nearby and previously unknown fault ruptures, triggering a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that collapses the dam. The film was released worldwide in 2D and 3D on and received mixed reviews from critics, praising the visual effects and Johnson and Gugino's performances, but criticizing the plot and characters. Principal photography of the film started on April 22, 2014, in Queensland, Australia, and wrapped up on July 28 in San Francisco. Its plot centers on a massive earthquake caused by the San Andreas Fault, devastating the West Coast of the United States. The film stars Dwayne Johnson, in the lead role, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi and Paul Giamatti. San Andreas is a 2015 American disaster film directed by Brad Peyton and written by Carlton Cuse, with Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore receiving story credit.

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