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You've [[Seen It a Million Times
Artistic License-Geology is the catch-all term for where a work shows an often well-studied disaster but gets it wrong. Either they [[Did Not Do the Research]], [[They Just Didn't Care]], or [[Dan Browned|they simply got it wrong during production]] and it creates such a blow to the [[Suspension of Disbelief]] of anyone who might even have a passing knowledge of the subject matter.
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** There are different types of lava. Some run fast as water. See below in the entry for ''[[Congo]]''
** That and in the movie its in a subtunnel... its not as much its speed as its the pressure. Anything can move INCREDIBLY fast under pressure, the pressure als makes it hotter which means its not a thick paste but may even be close to liquid.
* Like ''[[Volcano]]'', ''[[
** In ''Volcano'' the lava looks basaltic, but all volcanoes on the West Coast are gas rich felsic/intermediate andesitic volcanoes. Not to mention that the Juan De Fuca Plate that is subducted under the West Coast to produce volcanism is too far north to produce volcanoes in LA. In other words NO VOLCANOES IN CALIFORNIA.
*** [[wikipedia:Lassen Peak|Lassen Peak]] (last erupted in 1917), [[wikipedia:Mount Shasta|Mount Shasta]] (last erupted in 1786) and [[wikipedia:Medicine Lake Volcano|Medicine Lake Volcano]] (last erupted in the 11th Century) are in California, but it does say a thing that the southernmost volcano on the West Coast is in ''northern'' California. ''Far'' northern California at that; closer to Oregon than San Francisco.
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* ''Crack In The World'' movie from 1965.
** An incredibly fast case of [[Science Marches On]]. They were in line with accepted theory at the time the film was made. By the time the film was released geology was undergoing a revolution, and the Plate Tectonics theory was gaining ascendancy, making much of the geology in the movie nonsensical.
* In ''[[Outlander (
* ''[[
* In ''[[Gamera]] Vs Zigra'', the main villain causes multiple earthquakes. The strongest earthquake in the film does a lot of damage, but most buildings are still left standing. This earthquake is said to have a magnitude of 18 on the Richter scale -- More than ''100,000,000'' times more powerful than the strongest earthquake ever recorded.
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** Let's not forget that Mt. Etna and Vesuvius are not in Rome, but Rome was demolished.
* Let's face it: if it's an original movie on [[Sy Fy]], accuracy is the very least of their concerns.
* In the miniseries ''[[
** Immediately following the original airing of ''10.5'' the news program of the same network showed a bunch of real-life geologists watching ''10.5'' and laughing their heads off.
** The most blatant error is that it is literally impossible for there to be an earthquake with a magnitude of 10.5.
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** Mind you, parts of Outland/Draenor have [[Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction|crystals the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza]] lying around.
* Lots of games have "diamond" weapons or armor, assuming that since diamond is hard, it must be very durable. In fact, diamond crystals have perfect cleavage in four directions and are therefore quite brittle: ''scratching'' a diamond is hard, but ''breaking'' it is not.
** An exception is ''[[
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