The Prophets - 21:12
As soon as they felt Our torment, they tried to flee from it.
Destruction of previous countries:
The Spider/29:40
And We seized them all with their sins. And We sent upon some of them a mad storm, and a terrible sound seized some of them, and We drove some of them into the earth and drowned some of them. It was not Allah who wronged them; they wronged themselves.