10.5 (Season 1)

10.5 (2004) is an NBC disaster miniseries you can watch online on iFILM, starring Kim Delaney as seismologist Dr. Samantha Hill alongside Beau Bridges and Fred Ward. Directed by John Lafia.

A 7.9 levels Washington State. Then an 8.4 tears open northern California. Hill's models show the chain won't stop there — the next event will hit magnitude 10.5, enough to fracture the entire West Coast from the continent. Her colleagues dismiss it; officials would rather not consider the implications. Her only viable solution is a controlled nuclear detonation along the fault line, and only the President can authorize that.

It runs on spectacle: bridges dropping into the water, San Francisco submerged, the clock running short. Not a subtle film — but the scale is committed and the pacing keeps moving. Stream 10.5 (2004) online on iFILM.