When Our decision came, We made the highest part (of their tall buildings) the lowest part. [Hud 11:82]
So at the time Allah prepared to destroy them – they now had nowhere to hide.
In an Earthquake, you find somewhere to hide, but they never had any place to hide. You’re also supposed to lie down on the floor;
Ayah 11:83:
Musawwamatun – Marked; specifically, intensively, repeatedly – (with every person who is being targeted’s name marked upon it.
Like a sniper fire, targeting the individual people who have nowhere to hide.
What a horrible destruction! What a horrible ending.. a disastrous punishment to end this life for each individual enemy specifically, and a humiliating arrival to their next life. This is what Allah did with them evildoers.
‘and they are not far from those who do wrong’
Allah is warning all of us listeners, especially those who first heard it (the Quraysh polytheists) that Allah’s snipers are not far away from the wrongdoers…