Earthquakes in the movies

By Patrick Kevin Day and Todd Martens, Times Staff Writers

Los Angeles has seen more than its fair share of earthquakes over the years: big ones, medium ones and hundreds of small ones. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake that originated near Chino Hills today was big enough to knock stuff of shelves and little else.

We should count ourselves lucky. As these films show, things could have been much, much worse.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)