It begins not with a sudden bang, but with a deep, planetary shudder. In a Jakarta monitoring station, seismologist Dr. Aris Thorne sees the impossible: a signal that isn't a single earthquake, but dozens at once. A cascade event. A seismic contagion leaping from one tectonic fault to the next, tearing the Earth’s crust apart.
A shockwave radiates outward at over ten thousand kilometers per ho...
