Earthquakes, like birth pangs (contractions) will increase with intensity and frequency (as will the race wars, wars, famines, and pandemics), until ....

Mat 24:7 For nation [ethno] shall rise against nation [ethno], and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Mat 24:8  All these are the beginning of sorrows 

[birth pangs].

1) the pain of childbirth, travail pain, birth pangs

2) intolerable anguish, in reference to the dire calamities precede the advent of the Messiah

Authorized Version (KJV) Translation Count — Total: 4

AV — sorrow 2, pain 1, travail 1

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Earthquakes, like birth pangs (contractions) 

will increase with intensity and frequency

(as will the race wars, wars, 

famines, and pandemics), until ....