Eriq La Salle (the "E.R." guy -- how the mighty have fallen) plays "Boomer" Baxter, a miner and demolitions expert who witnesses a (gasp!) MegaFault begin in one of his dig sites. The crevasse intelligently follows his truck until he's swallowed up into the ground like Lois Lane in Superman: The Movie. The End.

Nah, just kidding. He's rescued by Dr. Amy Lane, a seismologist who thinks this MegaFault thing might be worse than anyone realizes. Sure enough, they team up and head off to tell the government. It turns out, the government has a secret Earthquake Satellite that can freeze the water table and blah-blah-blah-magic-science make earthquakes! If they can set off a counter-quake, it might stop the first one from splitting America in half worse than the last election.

Set pieces and hijinx ensue as Lane's husband and young daughter try to make it to safety, and the first plan fails. As a backup, they try to divert the MegaFault toward the Grand Canyon, which is bound to stop it! (Sure. Drop the hole...into a hole. But whatever.)

Boomer saves the day by setting off controlled high explosives, making a noble sacrifice... Well, he almost does. Either way, he ends up redeeming his part in causing the first quake in the first place. He belived it to be his fault, you see.

But you know whose Mega-Fault this turkey is? The Asylum's, writer Paul Bales's, and director David Michael Latt's, for making a movie so earth-shakingly Bad that the star Brittney Murphy quit TV movies for good.