That Earthquake movie had about the lamest assortment of characters of any movie. Former evangelical preacher Marjoe Gortner. Case closed.
Great ending though, of George Kennedy in front of the totally ruined landscape with burning natural gas lines shooting into the air and smoldering ruins of skyscrapers on the ground:
“This used to be a helluva town once.”
I met Gortner in the late 70s early 80s one strange dude