Can't help but wonder if there's a connection to the rapid expansion of Baal worship during the next few centuries.

Around that time, the non-Biblical Baal was supposed to have been some kind of sky/thunder deity, a proto-Zeus.

Also the light - I think I read that it was brighter than the Sun from some vantage points.

"duck and cover" which people tend to scoff at seemed to be exactly the correct approach as a schoolteacher saved their class that way.

"Damaged" is different from "smashed". I'm guessing that most of the 7000 buildings had some of their windows broken, and I don't think the 500-kiloton Chelyabinsk blast even killed anybody, much less "incinerated and flayed their exposed flesh, decapitated and dismembered some individuals, shattered many bones into mostly cm-sized fragments, scattered their bones across several meters, buried the bones in the destruction layer, and charred or disintegrated any bones that were still exposed." It surely would have done that if it had exploded near ground level instead of 29.7 km higher.

> it smashed 7000 buildings across 6 cities

This is extremely hyperbolic. Breaking a window is not "smashed".