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Aftershock: Earthquake in New York was a TV movie screened to show what the after-effects of an earthquake in New York would be like. The film featured considerably strong computer-generated imagery and featured the then-unknown Jennifer Garner in a major role. It is based on a book written by New York area TV news anchorman Chuck Scarborough. It should not be confused with a very "campy" movie on roughly the same subject that aired a few months before on the Family Channel which is not related to the book at all.

Chuck Scarborough wrote the book to note that while a quake of the size in his story is extremely unlikely in the Big Apple, it is technically not impossible and preparation should not be completely absent from local disaster plans; there are fault lines capable of "intraplate" earthquakes in the New York metro area and more moderate but significant quakes in the 5-ish range on the Richter scale were centered within the city's boundaries in both 1737 and 1884. The movie does not note the magnitude of the quake, however, the book puts it at 7.4 on the Richter.

The movie

Template:Spoiler Set in Modern-Day New York City in 1999 after a massive earthquake leaves Manhattan in ruins. The earthquake sequence shows many notable Manhattan landmarks being destored such as The Statue of Liberty falling into New York Harbor and the Guggenheim Museum collapsing in on it's self, also directlty after the earthquake we are shown fotage from a helicopter above the city, we see that The Brooklyn Bridge is destoryed along with other bridges leading out of Manhattan. The earthquake leaves most of the cities skyscrapers still standing. New York City Fire Chief Thomas Ahearn (Tom Skerritt) teams up with mayor, Bruce Lincoln (Charles S. Dutton), to save the destroyed city from destruction. They must race to enact a city-wide emergency plan and rebuild the city. The end is that it's one year later and the city is under re-construction.

Cast

In Actor/Character Order

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