Kristian succeeds, but an injured and weakened Idun falls to her death after the power goes out and the brakes on the elevator above fail. They arrive at an open elevator door near the 30th story and attempt to use a severed elevator cord to swing across to the opening. Debris knocked loose by aftershocks fall down the shaft and mutilate Idun's leg, forcing Kristian to carry her. The elevator Kristian and Julia are in plummets toward the ground but is stopped violently.Īfter coming to, Kristian and Idun make their way out of the stuck elevator and climb maintenance ladders to get to the top floor of the elevator shaft. Marit ascends the stairs and grabs Julia just as the earthquake hits, devastating the city. Getting on an elevator with Idun, Kristian sees Julia on the other end of the room, but the elevator door closes before he can. Julia wanders into the building to find her father, with Marit in pursuit. Kristian tries to call in a fake bomb threat to evacuate the university, but Sondre is convinced that they must leave the building after the evacuation alarm goes off.Īrriving at the hotel, Kristian finds Idun on the 34th floor, convinces her to go downstairs with him, and pulls the fire alarm to get everyone else to evacuate. On the way, Kristian calls Sondre to warn him, but Sondre, who is in class, ignores his calls. Kristian, Marit, and Julia rush to the Radisson Blu to warn Idun. The video shows that Konrad was using rats to investigate his theories, and that those rats had died from exposure to toxic gas Kristian concludes that a major earthquake, up to 8.5 on the Richter scale, will strike Oslo, and that the collapse that killed Konrad was merely an omen. The next morning, when Idun leaves for work and Sondre goes to University of Oslo, Marit discovers a video on her father's computer and shows it to Kristian. They embrace as Kristian cries, and the couple spends the night together. That night, Kristian visits Idun to apologize for missing the recital and breaks down, explaining he is constantly looking for the next disaster. When Johannes and his team arrive to inspect the damage, Kristian confronts him, but Johannes claims the collapse occurred due to the opera house's deteriorating support beams. Suddenly, a seismic rift destroys the Oslo Opera House where Julia is doing her recital Idun safely gets Julia out of the building. While traveling back to Oslo, Kristian accidentally snaps the core sample, and realizes that the earth underneath Oslo is unusually weak. ![]() The next day, Kristian finds more concerning research in Konrad's house, and convinces Marit to take him to the Oslofjord Tunnel, where he discovers a core sample Konrad was attempting to recover shortly before his death. As Kristian and Idun discuss their separation, the power goes out for the second time that week. Kristian visits Idun, meets with Sondre and his new girlfriend, and is invited to Julia's ballet recital. He calls Johannes about this, but Johannes mostly ignores him. Kristian visits Konrad's house, where he meets Konrad's daughter Marit and discovers Konrad's research, including core samples and a map that has recorded more serious seismic activity than Johannes claimed. Johannes reassures Kristian that the seismic activity that Konrad was worried about was merely construction blasting being done across the city and that there is nothing to be concerned about, but Kristian doubts his claims. He meets with Konrad's supervisor, Johannes Løberg, whose organization maintains a seismic activity monitoring system. Kristian learns of the death of fellow geologist Konrad Lindblom in a collapse in the Oslofjord Tunnel, and travels to Oslo with Konrad's research to investigate the circumstances of his death. Kristian feels responsible for the 250 fatalities of the tsunami and keeps a secret room in his house dedicated to the events and the fatalities, which causes strain with his family. Kristian lives in seclusion high above the mostly-rebuilt Geiranger, while his family moves to Oslo, where Idun works at the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel. Three years later, his wife Idun is divorcing him and he is separated from his children, Sondre and Julia. ![]() In 2016, geologist Kristian Eikjord is hailed a hero for his actions during the tsunami in Geiranger. It is the sequel to The Wave and was released in Norwegian theaters on 31 August 2018. The Quake ( Norwegian: Skjelvet) is a 2018 Norwegian disaster film directed by John Andreas Andersen.
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