M5.0 earthquake strikes 72 km NW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu

This earthquake in Vanuatu represents one instance of the 'famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places' prophesied as signs of the times. While isolated seismic events occur naturally throughout history, the prophecy indicates a pattern of increasing earthquakes globally as birth pangs before the end times. This single M5.0 event is consistent with but not definitive of that broader pattern.