Director: Monroe Robertson
Deep beneath the Mariana Trench, a fault line wakes up, and Planetquake spends 85 brisk minutes asking what happens if nobody in charge is willing to believe the scientists ringing the alarm.
What is Planetquake about?
A sudden tectonic shift far below the ocean floor triggers a chain of earthquakes that grow stronger with each new tremor. A small team of seismologists reads the pattern correctly almost immediately: left unchecked, the shifting plates could eventually tear the planet's crust apart and put billions of lives at risk. The catch is convincing anyone with the power to act before it's too late — officials stall, timelines shrink, and the scientists are forced to push their warnings and their own theories about how to intervene through channels that were never built to move this fast. The film keeps its focus tight on the ticking-clock urgency of that credibility gap, using escalating quake sequences less as spectacle for its own sake and more as a countdown clock forcing skeptics to finally listen.
Cast & crew
Erica Duke anchors the ensemble as one of the lead seismologists, working alongside Michael Paré, Phillip Andre Botello, Candace Kita, Anthony Jensen, Doug Jeffery, Angelo Kern, and Chevonne Wilson as the mix of scientists, officials, and skeptics caught in the escalating crisis.
Context & significance
Directed by Monroe Robertson, Planetquake (2024) is a disaster-tinged science fiction thriller from the United States running 85 minutes, built around the familiar genre pairing of specialist experts racing institutional inertia before a natural catastrophe reaches the point of no return. It fits comfortably alongside a long lineage of earthquake and disaster thrillers that use a ticking geological clock to dramatize how slowly bureaucracies tend to move compared to the scale of the threat in front of them.
Where & how to watch
K-Time carries Planetquake with Persian dubbing, letting Farsi-speaking audiences follow the seismologists' race against the clock in their own language. This page is free to read, and streaming the film itself only requires signing into a K-Time account, on a platform built for the Iranian diaspora.