Big One

The Big One is a term often used in casual conversation by residents of California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia to describe the megathrust earthquake or other natural disaster anticipated as inevitably striking the West Coast of the United States. The name has also been applied to a megathrust earthquake expected to happen in Tokyo, Kanto area, Japan with the epicenter in Sagami Bay where the Filipino Plate and North American Plate movements cause big earthquakes regularly, with an interval of approximately 70 years. See also 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.

The Big One, or Big One may also refer to:

In fiction

• The Big One (film), a film by Michael Moore
• The Big One (TV series), an early-1990s comedy series starring Sandi Toksvig and Mike McShane
• "The Big One" (Gilmore Girls), a third-season episode of the television series Gilmore Girls
• "The Big One" (Dexter), a season 5 finale of the television series Dexter
• The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake, a 1990 made-for-television movie starring Joanna Kerns, depicting a massive earthquake that destroys Los Angeles, California.
• Sōkichi Bamba/Big One, a fictional character in J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai
• The fake heart attack that Redd Foxx would regularly have on Sanford and Son, telling his deceased wife Elizabeth that he was soon to rejoin her (used as a means of coercing others, mainly his son Lamont, to do his bidding)
• The Big One, a rocket used in the animated film Toy Story

In music

• "The Big One", a 1988 single by Black.
• The Big One (Daddy Freddy album), a 1994 album by ragga vocalist Daddy Freddy
• "The Big One", a song by Nellie McKay from her album Pretty Little Head
• "The Big One", a 1994 song by George STrait
• "The Big One", a 1998 single by Confederate Railroad

In pop culture:

• Big One, a roller coaster in Blackpool Pleasure Beach
• "The Big One", the nickname given to Red Nose Day 2007, a fundraising event held in the UK organised by Comic Relief
• "The Big One", a slogan used by WLW 700 AM, a radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio
• The Big One (NASCAR), used to describe a massive multi-car accident in NASCAR superspeedway competition.
• The Big One (IndyCar), used to describe the massive multi-car IndyCar accident that claimed the life of Dan Wheldon

Other disasters:

• A global flu epidemic similar to the Spanish flu
• World War II

See also

• Big Two (disambiguation)
• Big Three (disambiguation)
• Big Four (disambiguation)
• Big Five (disambiguation)
• Big Six (disambiguation)
• Big Seven (disambiguation)
• Big Eight (disambiguation)
• Big Ten (disambiguation)
• Big 11
• Big 12