While a very good disaster movie, Earthquake doesn't appear to be well-liked, especially in regards to the DVD release, due to it being without special features and no way to simulate the "sensurround" sound in the original theatrical release. Sensurround was never used for any other movie. Nobody seemed to be focused on the disaster aspect. From the reviews on Amazon, the most positive thing about the movie was Victoria Principal's boobs, everybody else was whining about Lorne Greene and Ava Gardner playing father and daughter despite there not being a big real-life age difference between them.
Interesting Trivia fact: I found clips of the movie on YouTube, and people did erroneously think Victoria Principal co-starred with George Kennedy in Naked Gun. (It was Priscilla Presley). Incidentally, George Kennedy did star on the final seasons of Dallas, but by then, Pam Ewing (Victoria Principal's character on Dallas) had been killed off.
And did anybody notice the cartoonish blood-splattering in one panic scene? (It was just before the scene at LAX). It did look more like Itchy and Scratchy than a 70s disaster movie in that one scene.
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