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** This is one of those little plot holes that appear when you change the original source material. In the novel, the eruption was triggered when Karen [[spoiler: dynamitated a large area where she was expecting to find diamonds - she ''was'' the CorruptCorporateExecutive in the original story and a very unlikable character]]. They changed completely Karen's personality for the movie adaptation and as a result this incident had to be dropped because it did no longer make sense. Instead, they added an early line by Travis where he says that they've been monitoring the zone via satellite and that the hole area is about to blow up so they must act fast. Presumably, as per the movie verse, there have been quite a few earthquakes and eruptions around Zinj in recent times and the fact ''this one'' is so timely and so destructive is meant to be a pure coincidence. The characters might have considered the situation to not be as bad at first, hence their opinion that the gorillas might know what to do since they have survived all those previous quakes and eruptions.

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** This is one of those little plot holes that appear when you change the original source material. In the novel, the eruption was triggered when Karen [[spoiler: dynamitated a large area where she was expecting to find diamonds - she ''was'' the CorruptCorporateExecutive in the original story and a very unlikable character]]. They changed completely Karen's personality for the movie adaptation and as a result this incident had to be dropped because it did no longer make sense. Instead, they added an early line by Travis where he says that they've been monitoring the zone via satellite and that the hole whole area is about to blow up so they must act fast. Presumably, as per the movie verse, there have been quite a few earthquakes and eruptions around Zinj in recent times and the fact ''this one'' is so timely and so destructive is meant to be a pure coincidence. The characters might have considered the situation to not be as bad at first, hence their opinion that the gorillas might know what to do since they have survived all those previous quakes and eruptions.

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