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Encyclopedic overview
A production still from during the filming of Earthquake in 1974.
A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device. Such disasters may include natural disasters, accidents, military/terrorist attacks, alien invasions, or global catastrophes such as a pandemic. A subgenre of action films, these films usually feature some degree of build-up, the disaster itself, and sometimes the aftermath, usually from the point of view of specific individual characters or their families or portraying the survival tactics of different people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “disaster film” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.