The Russian meteor of February 15th has tickled the fancy of the media and yet these things have probably been a common occurrence throughout human history. Why have the last few generations of westerners become distanced from this reality?
Claude Schaeffer proposed his theory of earthquake storms causing mass destruction of settlements sites across the Aegean and western Asia as long ago as 1948. At that time it was considered absurd, catastrophic nonsense, and somewhat pseudo-scientific. However, the Agean and Anatolia is at a major plate boundary and earthquake zone. Earthquakes take place all the time across this region, What other archaeologists disliked was the intrusion of a different discipline into theirs, that of seismology, but also they were assured by geologists such a things as earthquake storms was far fetched and could not possibly have happened - even though the evidence was there on the ground.
This is where the Russian meteor comes in. It sent out a pressure wave that expanded radially through the atmosphere. At the same time it sent out a seismic wave 'within' the ground that was picked up by seismographic stations all around the world. Can a bolide, exploding nearer to the ground than the Russian meteor, have generated a seismic wave powerful enough to cause an earthquake storm as described by Schaeffer?