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The first trailer for the movie showcased a Tibetan monk bashing a giant bell with a log on top of a mountain in the Himalayas (this is the same mountain range as Everest, keep in mind) while various shots of water rushing and rumbling can be heard. Then, all of a sudden, ''boom'', a massive torrent of water goes '''over the mountains''' and engulfs everything.

** There's also a ''massive'' example at the end: It's stated that the African continent has risen after the crust displacement, and that it likely never flooded. This means that the world's ''poorest continent'' was the one to receive the least devastation, since it only got hit by the earthquakes.

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Jackson Curtis. In a limo and RV of all things.

* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: Charlie Frost gleefully enjoys one last [[Chewing the Scenery|scenery-feast]] before the Yellowstone Caldera erupts and kills him.

* [[Earthquakes Cause Fissures]]: Good Lord, do they ever.

** The inspirational black president, though this may just be a latter-day example of [[Bald Black Leader Guy]].

* [[The Everyman]]: Jackson Curtis, a down-on-his-luck divorced writer working as a limo driver to pay the bills.

* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]:

** "[[Catch Phrase|You heard first from Charlie!]]"

* [[Homage]]: If you're gonna make a disaster flick, make a disaster flick that respects its roots!

** [[Independence Day]]/[[Jurassic Park]]: "must go faster, must go faster!"

** [[The Poseidon Adventure]] as Papa Helmsley's ship capsizes.

** And, of course, ''Earthquake''.

* [[Informed Flaw]]: (or, to be more precise, Informed Inability) Gordon claims to have had only a few flying lessons, but performs impressive feats of stunt piloting during the escape from California. He is, of course, improvising and is helped along by an actual pilot on the Russian plane.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: In California, an old woman chides "I told ya we shoulda moved back to Wisconsin." Later on, aboard [[Air Force One]], Anheuser discovers the planet's new south magnetic pole is in Wisconsin. At the end, the final sentence of Jackson's novel turns out to be "Somehow or another, we all had relatives in Wisconsin." There were quite a few chuckles from Wisconsin audiences at all 3 lines. Kinda makes you wonder what made Wisconsin so popular with the producer. This could be a [[Shout-Out]] to another popular conspiracy theory, one involving a planet colliding with Earth in the early 21st century. The source of the theory was Nancy Lieder, a Wisconsin woman who claimed to have been contacted by extraterrestrial aliens.

* [[Kill the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Poor Tamara}}.

* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: [[Hawaii]] gets turned into this. Complete with [[Scenery Gorn]] of the ruined Honolulu skyline.