Tension

Tension is a 2006 Lovian disaster film directed by Andy Barrett. It tells the story of the 1993 Lovian earthquake and tsunami, which affected Sylvania and flooded some parts of Noble City.

It starred Jon Shiell, Harriet Higgins, David Henderson, Sam Arnold and Anne Palmer.

Plot
On July 26, 1993, two geologists, Harris Anders and Bob Hansen (Damien Heden and Daniel Johannson) discover soil liquefaction near a coastal beach in Sylvania. Two days later, they find themselves on an oil platform studying this. Suddenly, a small 2.2 tremor hits, which shakes the platform and smashes Hansen's cell phone.

The next day, another tremor hits, this time being a 3.8 on the Richter scale. The pillars supporting the platform start cracking. At exactly 12 pm, another earthquake hits, this time, a 6.0, causing the platform to collapse into the sea, Anders and Hansen are killed and all their electric equipment is washed ashore.

On July 30, a pair of teenagers, Brian and Tracy (Shiell and Higgins) travel to the beach. Brian is a wannabe seismologist, while Tracy works in a gas station. Suddenly, they discover two bodies washed ashore, along with a laptop, a cell phone and a jotter, starting to rot apart by the water. The bodies belong to Anders and Hanser, the two geologists which we saw earlier in the film. Brian phones the police on his cell phone, while Tracy tries to get them some oxygen. The police come, and identify the bodies as Harris Ander's and Bob Hansen's.

On July 31, the two teenagers participate in a surfing contest. Everything seems to be going fine, until a small tsunami-like wave crashes into the shore, carrying a pillar and a rotting metal crane. The lifeguard's chair is smashed by the crane, and the pillar is thrown onto a parked car, causing it to explode. Everybody, except the lifeguard (Jacob Mills), runs for cover. The lifeguard is swept away by the water and killed. The same night, Brian and Tracy go home to Noble City. The soil liquefaction spreads, and cuts into the highway. Suddenly, Brian realizes the massive scar and swerves and crashes into the opposite side of the road. Other drivers realize it too, and cause a pileup. Noone is injured, but some cars are either stuck in the crack and some are set on fire.

The next day, on August 1, Tracy watches a news report in her home, about how the tsunami managed to travel a mile inland. The footage shows homes sinking into the muddy, shoulder-deep water, cars being smashed against trees and walls, and trees collapsing. Her parents come in, and tell her, that there is a dance at their school on Friday.

On Friday of that same week, Brian and Tracy go to the dance. Meanwhile, a seismologist called Dave (Michael Newhaven) discovers a massive fault line underwater. The fault line suddenly moves, creating a slight jolt on the land. It crashes, sending immense energy into the surface of the sea. The seismologist labels the earthquake as a 7.8 on the Richter scale. Then, he sees a tsunami. It crashes into the shore, and moves at high speeds inland. He quickly labels the height of it as ten meters (32 feet), before he is swept away. The highway is jammed with people going home from work. The wave then rips through it, getting higher and higher as it moves inland. Cars are thrown into the air and land far away from the highway itself, but in metal shards.

Suddenly, Tracy starts feeling strange. Brian asks her what is it, but she says that she thinks there is something coming. The wave is inside Brian and Tracy's town. It rips through the streets, throwing people and cars away from its path. Suddenly, it hits the school. It first breaks through the glass, pouring drops of water on some of the dancers. Suddenly, a drop of water falls into the musician's keyboard speaker, causing it to explode. Suddenly, the power is cut and some of the dancers scream in fright. Then, the plaster on the wall starts cracking, with water pouring through it. People start running. One guy called Carl (Josh Michaels) accidentally opens the emergency exit. Water rushes into the hall, drowning the musicians and some of the students. Brian and Tracy manage to escape, as the walls on the school collapse and a surge of water rips through them. The school collapses on itself. Most of the students are agile swimmers and manage to escape quickly to the surface, twenty-five meters (80 feet) above them. The wave, then breaks into Noble City. It floods some streets, before starting to lower down. Around a hundred are drowned. The wave then crashes into a hill, preventing it from getting further downtown. It starts to lower down, and after about 20 minutes, it is over 5 meters high. Wrecks of rusty cars can be seen from the water.