M5.0 earthquake strikes 5 km SE of Butulan, Philippines

The headline reports an earthquake in the Philippines, which directly instantiates one of the 'signs of the times' — famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places (Luke 21:11). This M5.0 earthquake is a natural earthquake event (not yet tribulational in scale), representing the ongoing fulfillment of increasing seismic activity as a pre-return condition.