An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.













25th April 1997
29 years ago
1 hour 44 minutes
Finishes at 3:14am
$90,000,000 ($184,572,000 today)
Revenue $122,823,468




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