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.

• DirectorMick Jackson
• Release25 April 1997
• Genre
  Science Fiction / Action
• Duration1h 44m
• Budget$90,000,000
• Revenue$122,823,468
• Rate
  

  5.9
  1571 reviews
• Productions

  20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Shuler Donner / Donner & Moritz Original Productions