Sodom, Gomorrah and Flammable Methane
Geological and archaeological evidence suggest that a huge one took place about four and a half thousand years ago - the time of the Biblical destruction
of Sodom & Gomorrah.
Flammable Methane |
Flammable methane pockets lie under the Dead Sea shores; where the "sin city" was. The earthquake produced the ignition, so the ground turned quicksand, and a massive landslide would have swept the cities into the water.
Experiments carried out at Cambridge University have backed up this account. (As usual, these "acts of God" can be explained by natural events or catastrophes. (By the Way, Lot giving his daughters to the sex craving mob...not very moral indeed.)
God loves genocide.