History reveals the great city of Babylon was conquered in one night, without resistance, in 539 BC by Cyrus the Great. Revelation 14:8 reads:
14:8 And there followed another Angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great citie, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
It is theorized that when the poles shifted six thousand years ago it changed the face of the Earth. That mass destruction happened within one quarter to one half of a day, that's it. When the earths crust moves shit goes down real fast.
Hollywood! San Andreas. Especially if triggered by Cascadia fault rupture.