Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for survival after a catastrophic earthquake destroys most of the city of Los Angeles, California.
This movie contains 1 potentially triggering events.
Several dogs are featured in passing, but no harm comes to them. One dog, late in the film, is rescued from the ruins of a building and appears to be adopted by a character.
Rape is very much attempted, with assault and clothes ripping, but thwarted at the last minute. Very obvious it's coming in scenes throughout the movie, as I came here looking for the answer to this question
A major character (who happens to be the father of another major character) dies of a heart attack. In one scene a woman who is identified by another extra as mother" is hit and killed by falling glass.
Several people fall to their doom. These include a pair of window washers, two workers thrown out of a high rise, a dozen or so in a plunging elevator, three people who tumble out of a damaged office tower after the quake and three who fall to their deaths during the aftershock.