(In their life of luxury, like other strong nations they felt invincible.) The destruction came from under their feet. A powerful earthquake annihilated them, leaving them lifeless in their homes
A harsh earthquake seized them... They collapsed in their homes and died!
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
Then the earthquake seized them, so they became motionless bodies in their dwellings
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim
There, did the destructive convulsion of the earth's surface seize them and reduced them to a useless form and laid them prostrate and dead under the ruins of their demolished homes