I don't wish to speculate about such a matter in terms of the future, but I think it's already happened before in the Middle East a very long time ago at Sodom and Gomorrah. (And yes, I'm serious. And no, I don't think "God" did it.)

An alternate translation of what happened to Lot's wife, who turned to look back at the destruction is that she turned into a pillar of "vapour", not salt. In other words, she was vaporized.

It has long been customary, as the ages of antiquity rolled past, to blame the more dramatic actions of either human beings or natural catastrophes upon "God".