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In this time of the clash of continents, a great earthquake split the land...Cera was on one side of the divide, her family on the other. |
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— Narrator, The Land Before Time
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The Great Earthshake was a huge earthquake that occurs in the first act of The Land Before Time. According to the narrator, it was created by two continents colliding. It took place at dawn and separated and killed many herds, including the main character's. It created a huge crack called the Great Divide, leading down to the "Big Underground". Many dinosaurs fell down the cracks, among them Sharptooth. Littlefoot and Cera nearly fell as well but Littlefoot's Mother saved them. By the earthshake's climax, one side of the divide started slowly rising up, separating herds everywhere. Among the dinosaurs stuck on the high portion included Grandma and Grandpa Longneck, Daddy Topps and Cera's mother, (all of whom survived the earthshake), while Littlefoot, Cera and Littlefoot's Mother were trapped on the lower portion.
None of the Land Before Time Earthshakes, including the Great Earthshake, had any onscreen aftershocks.
The event is mentioned in the Stone of Cold Fire, when Grandpa Longneck mentions the event when he explains to Littlefoot and his friends why Pterano was expelled from the Great Valley.
It is possibly mentioned again in the Great Longneck Migration, when Bron tells he explains to Littlefoot, where he came to the same spot he left to find his family a new home.
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