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On a quiet Wednesday morning, as the city of Mumbai stirred awake, no one expected that the day would be etched into history forever. Thousands of miles away, deep beneath the frigid crust of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, tectonic plates groaned and cracked. At 5:42 AM IST, a massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck, shaking the Earth’s bones. Within minutes, an enormous wall of water—relentless and dark—rose from the Pacific Ocean.In Mumbai, the sky was unusually gray, the sea eerily silent. Fisherman Ravi Patil, who had gone out before dawn, noticed the tide retreating at an unnatural speed. “It’s pulling